Murdered chess players

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Christopher Kreuzer
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Re: Murdered chess players

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:55 am

That is tragic. Thanks for finding that, Simon.

José Félix Villarreal

Here is the original news report in Spanish:

https://cadenanoticias.com/regional/202 ... co-del-itt

Trying to find English-language sources as well.

Here is one:

https://im-defensoras.org/2022/03/whrd- ... alifornia/
On Saturday, March 19, 2022, the activist attorney Patricia Susana Rivera Reyes was murdered in her home in the Terrazas de la Presa neighborhood in Tijuana. The alleged assailants entered her residence and attacked her as well as her husband, a professor at the Tijuana Technological Institute.

According to reports in the news media, police sources stated that the target of the attack was a man who lived at the same address.
Am trying to find confirmation that the husband of the attorney was indeed a professor at the Tijuana Technological Institute and is the same person as the chess player (no reason to disbelieve the reporting, just checking).

I don't understand these Spanish-language news sites that only have a few sentences and lots of adverts... But this one has what appears to be a picture of the chess IM with his gold medal from the 1980 Olympiad, and sadly it does seem that they and the deceased are one and the same person:

https://alfredoalvarez.mx/muere-ingenie ... activista/

He was hospitalised for a month after being shot before dying. :(