Ricardo Ortega Fernández (April 4, 1966 – March 7, 2004), a Spanish journalist for the television channel Antena 3 in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Community of Madrid, Spain, was shot and killed while on assignment in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to cover the protests in the aftermath of the 2004 Haitian coup d'état. Personal Ricardo Ortega Fernandez was born to parents Charo Fernández and José Luis Ortega in Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Province of Cuenca, Spain in 1966. As a 7-year old, he moved with his family to Alicante, Valencian Community, along the coast known as Costa Blanca, Province of Alicante. His studies were at the Primary School in Cervantes and Montgó, as well as the Historiador Chabás in Dénia. At the University of Valencia, Ortega Fernandez earned a bachelor's degree in engineering, and then went to Russia to pursue studies in nuclear physics. It was while studying in Russia that Ortega was asked by EFE to report and he turned to a career in journalism. After his death, he was declared by the city of Dénia as its "Adopted Son." Career Ricardo Ortega started his journalism career in the early 1990s working for the Spanish newswire agency EFE in Moscow, Russia, where he remained for eight years. As a foreign correspondent for EFE, he reported from such places as Sarajevo and Chechnya. After moving to Antena 3 in 2000, he reported from New York City, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Washington. His interview with General Ahmad Shah Massoud is well known. He was on a leave in New York City from Antena 3, when they offered that he cover the Haitian crisis after the coup d'état. Death In late February, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was removed from Haiti by the US Military. On March 7, 2004, Ortega had been on assignment in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, covering street protests for his tenth day when violence erupted around 2 p.m. It was reported that the initial shots came from anti-Aristide protester but that shots were returned from the other direction. In the crossfire, US photojournalist Michael Laughlin, Sun-Sentinel of Florida, was wounded. There were two accounts of Ortega's killing. According to US journalist Peter Andrew Bosh of the Miami Herald, Ortega had been in a house, located at Rue Lamarre 41-43, and providing aid with others to his wounded colleague, and when he stepped out of the house, he was shot twice. However, German photojournalist Marcel Mettelsiefen