 On Wednesday , 30 May 1984 , Buendía left his offices in Colonia Juárez at around 6 : 30 p.m. and headed towards his car in a parking lot near <unk> Avenue at the Zona Rosa neighborhood in Mexico City . As he got closer to his car , a tall man wearing jeans , a black jacket , and a baseball cap approached him from behind and violently grabbed his coat before shooting him four times with a .38 Super . Buendía was carrying a handgun on his waist but he was not able to defend himself at the moment of his death . After killing him , the assailant fled on a motorcycle with another man . There were several bystanders who witnessed the murder and managed to see the faces of the assassins , including Juan Manuel Bautista , a colleague of Buendía ; Rogelio Barrera Galindo , a man who had parked his vehicle close to the journalist 's ; and Felipe Flores Fernández , a bus driver . Among the first to arrive at the murder scene was José Antonio Zorrilla Pérez , then @-@ head of the Federal Security Directorate ( DFS ) , Mexico 's equivalent of the FBI , and one of Buendía 's main sources for his political publications . Photos of Buendía 's corpse circulated across Mexico and the rest of the world . 
