Jesús Adrián Rodríguez Samaniego (June 3, 1975 – December 10, 2016) was a Mexican radio journalist for the Antena 102.5 FM and a former crime reporter for the Organización Editorial Mexicana newspaper El Heraldo de Chihuahua, was murdered on December 10, 2016 in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico. Reporters stated a possible motive for the murder may have been Rodríguez's investigation into the 2013 jailing of two brothers from the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. This case was the 11th murder in Mexico of a journalist in 2016, the year with the highest number recorded. Personal Samaniego was born in 1975 in Chihuahua, Mexico. Samaniego lived with his girlfriend and his two daughters in the Chihuahua City's Santa Rosa neighborhood. Career Samaniego was a radio journalist for the Antena 102.5 FM, a local radio station owned by the GRD Multimedia, and former crime reporter for the newspaper El Heraldo de Chihuahua in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico. For more than 15 years he collaborated with various local media, such as being a reporter for the police section of the newspaper El Heraldo de Chihuahua. Every Saturday he participated in the Reporters' Desk program at the station where he worked. Death Jesus Adrian Rodriguez Samaniego was killed at point-blank range outside his home located in the Santa Rosa neighborhood of Chihuahua City at around 7:30 a.m. Samaniego was getting into his Tsuru model car to head to an event called, "Mesa de Reporteros," a weekly Saturday radio talk show. Two unknown men drove by and shot him at least 8 times with .45 caliber rounds. Samaniego was killed instantly on the scene. For some days he had been investigating a delicate case of two people arrested on charges allegedly obtained under torture, inflicted by agents of the public prosecutor's office. No reports were found with any possible suspects. Context Samaniego's murder is still being investigated, but reports stated that there was not any particular threats before the events occurred. El Heraldo de Chihuahua reported that one possible motive for the murder may have been Rodríguez's investigation into the 2013 jailing of two brothers from the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. As of December 2016, the men were held as suspects in a July 2009 attack on a government convoy that killed two policemen and an official of the federal Social Development Secretariat. Reporters Without Borders ranks Mexico as the deadliest country for journalists