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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2007 
Kin of New York Journalist Visit Mexican Site Where He Was Killed
 Jose Maria Alvarez - Associated Press
| | Hardy and Kathy Will, parents of slain New York journalist-activist Bradley Roland Will, accompanied by their son Craig, participate in a march to the site where their son was killed during last year's violent protests in Oaxaca, Mexico, Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Bradley Roland Will, 36, was fatally shot while filming a protest in October, 2006. For a month before his death, Will recorded video and wrote dispatches from Oaxaca for indymedia.org, a Web site run by a network of small, nonprofit media centers. (AP/Luis Alberto Cruz) |
The parents of slain New York journalist and activist Bradley Roland Will visited the poor Mexican neighborhood where he was fatally shot in October and blamed police henchmen for his death.
Hardy and Kathy Will, accompanied by dozens of supporters, made their first visit on Wednesday to the spot where their son was shot on Oct. 27 while filming a protest in southern Oaxaca City, 220 miles southeast of Mexico City. They left behind a cross and flowers.
For a month before his death, Will, 36, recorded video and wrote dispatches from Oaxaca for indymedia.org, a Web site run by a network of small nonprofit media centers.
State investigators arrested two town officials in the killing but later released them after state Attorney General Lizbeth Cana suggested that Will may have been shot by a protester.
Will's parents said witnesses dispute that theory. They planned to meet with Cana late Wednesday to discuss the case.
Protest leader Flavio Sosa accused Cana of fabricating evidence.
On Thursday, Will's family planned to go to the federal attorney general's office in Oaxaca and ask officials there to take over the investigation into their son's death. Will's supporters plan to begin a hunger strike in support of that demand.
At least eight others were killed last year during violent protests in Oaxaca, a once-tranquil tourist city whose downtown was seized by protesters demanding the resignation of Gov. Ulises Ruiz. The protesters accused Ruiz of electoral fraud.
Thousands of federal police pushed the protesters out of the city in October and November. |
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