The 35-year-old cameraman for Canal 21 was gunned down in the municipality of Santa Maria Xalapán, Jalapa Department. The victim was shot near a community assembly where he was a participant.
Jiménez had received death threats one day before the shooting. The police arrested Raúl Antonio Jiménez Cruz, who had been released from prison after serving ten years for another murder, as a suspect in the media worker’s killing.