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Final moments of Indy journalist killed in Oaxaca

12:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Controversia|mexico · Comments Off

31 Oct 2006

77960.jpgIt’s hard to believe that idyllic Oaxaca City is the scene of such calamity and bloodshed, as Mala’s been telling us about lately. As she mentioned in a previous post, New York-based journalist for Indymedia, Brad Will, was caught in the crossfire and killed by a bullet to the chest as he was covering the confrontation for the website.

Spain’s 20 Minutos reports today that Will was shooting video at the time, and captured his last moments — and his own death — on tape.

Will received a shot in the chest during a shootout and died on the way to a public hospital.

Now there are questions as to who fired the shot that killed him.

For the moment, the only valid testimony is the one that he himself captured with his camera: his own death.

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