Barroso was shot multiple times after an unknown assailant knocked on his front door.

A Mexican journalist who often covered crime and drug gangs in northern Sonora state has died after being shot at point-blank range in his home near the US border, local authorities said. 

Santiago Barroso, 47, was shot multiple times after an unknown assailant knocked on his front door on Friday, the state prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Saturday. He was pronounced dead later at a hospital.

Barroso worked as a multimedia journalist in the border town of San Luis Rio Colorado, about 32 kilometres southwest of Yuma, Arizona on the US side.

He was a host of a local radio show, director of the news website Red 563 and a contributor to weekly newspaper Contrasena.

“With great regret and impotence, we inform that the journalist Santiago Barroso, 47 years old, was murdered in San Luis Rio Colorado, in Sonora Mexico,” Red 563 tweeted on Friday. 

“Tonight, colleagues wait outside the hospital where he passed away .. after [an] armed man knocked on the door of his house and shot him [dead].”

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