The correspondent for Televisa in Sonora and director of InfoGuaymas, a news website, was gunned down by unidentified attackers in a parking lot in Guaymas town where he had gone to celebrate his 47th birthday.
López who was also the general secretary of the Delegation 11 of the National Union of Press Writers (SNRP), an IFJ affiliate. In March 2021, he had called a press conference to denounce threats he had received because of his work and asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigatethem.