The journalist and editor of Contacto magazine was gunned down by an unidentified assailant on a motorbike in the retion of Tulúa, Valle de Cauca. According to local media, the journalist was shot as he was with his parents and died while he was being transported to the nearest hospital. The authorities also indicated that, while Plazas had not received any threats, a person he did not know had come to his home, hours before he was killed.