Third Mexican journalist killed this year as press corps faces murder crisis

Lourdes Maldonado was shot in Tijuana, a week after another journalist was killed, and a third was fatally stabbed days earlier

Three years ago reporter Lourdes Maldonado Lopez stood up before Mexico's president at a press conference and told him: I fear for my life."

On Sunday she was gunned down in the city of Tijuana - the third Mexican journalist to be killed this year in what is a deepening murder crisis facing the country's press corps and its populist leader, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.