Édison Alberto Molina

The presenter for Puerto Berrío stereo community radio was shot dead by a gunman on a motorcycle as he left the station’s offices with his wife. He was hit four times in an attach which left his wife also injured.

Molina , who was also a lawyer, hosted a regular program ‘Consultorio Jurídico ‘, a legal advice call-in show and had received death threat s before his murder, according to reports.

Two weeks before he was murdered, rocks had been thrown at his law office. A few minutes after the killing, Puerto Berrío city councilman Francisco Villa said he had received a phone call warning that he would be the next victim, according to Reporters Without Borders.

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