Marques added that “there were people who did not like his style [of journalism]”.
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The perpetrators subdued a receptionist and ordered a sound engineer to take cover under a table before opening fire on Carvalho, who was shot three times in the head and twice in the chest.
In March, a Paraguayan radio journalist, Gerardo Ceferino Servían Coronel, was shot dead in the Brazilian city of Ponta Porã, on the border with Paraguay. According to an August 7 Fox News report; police said the unknown suspects arrived at the station under the guise of buying advertising space.
The journalist died en route to a nearby hospital.
The crime is under investigation, but authorities believe the journalist was killed for political reason.
Studio operator, , said they then burst into the studio, shooting Carvalho three times.
“Attacks against journalists for their work threaten freedom of expression and the very fabric of democracy”, said Maria Laura Canineu, Brazil’s director at Human Rights Watch.
“He spoke to me constantly about the threats but said he wasn’t afraid”, Santos told the Mirror.”The most serious threats he received were to do with politics”.
“Violence against the press in Brazil had already reached unacceptable levels”, she said.
Police have announced they had arrested a couple suspected of helping the two gunmen who remain at large.
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Brazil is the third most risky country in Latin America for journalists, following Mexico and Honduras, with 38 journalists killed between 2000 and 2014, according to the nonprofit group Reporters Without Borders.
