NYC Indymedia Journalist Brad Will Shot Dead by Government Forces in Oaxaca

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NYC Indymedia Journalist Brad Will
Shot Dead by Government Forces in Oaxaca

Calamity, NYC Indymedia

[Confirmed by La Jornada (Mexico) and Radio APPO Oaxaca]

A shooting occurred today in Oaxaca City, Mexico, leaving New York City Indymedia journalist Bradley Will dead after being shot in the chest. He died before reaching the hospital, according to La Jornada. A photographer from the newspaper Milenio Diario, who was at Will's side, was shot in the foot and reported injured, his status unknown.


Radio APPO, the radio of the Popular Assembly of the Oaxacan People, is reporting truckloads of armed paramilitaries entering the city. They are calling for people to reinforce the thousands of barricades that have been constructed for months as part of the statewide teachers' strike and popular uprising that has demanded the removal of PRI governor Ulisis Ortiz Ruiz.