Felipe Guevara, journalist from Q’hubo Cali, victim of an attack, died

The journalist Andrés Felipe Guevara, linked to the newspaper Q’hubo de Cali, died this Wednesday in a clinic in the south of the city, where he had been treated since last Monday, after being the victim of an attack with a firearm.

The 27-year-old communicator was in charge of the judicial sources of the daily Q’hubo Cali, a medium of which he was part for nearly three years.

Guevara was the victim of a firearm attack on the night of Monday, December 21, when he was with another young man on Calle 42 and Carrera 49 in the Mariano Ramos neighborhood, eastern Cali.

In that place they were surprised by a man who shot both of them several times. Guevara received five bullet wounds.

Due to the seriousness of his chest, stomach and leg injuries, he was transferred to a hospital in the south of the city where he underwent two surgeries between Monday night and Tuesday morning.

Felipe was a graduate of Social Communication and Journalism from the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente.

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After knowing the news of the attack, the Secretary of Security and Justice, Carlos Rojas, and the commander of the Metropolitan Police of Cali, General Manuel Antonio Vásquez, announced that actions are being taken to find the whereabouts of the perpetrators of this crime.

In turn, General Vásquez offered a reward of up to $ 20 million for related information and assured that, together with the Prosecutor’s Office, they continue with the investigation of the fact.

The Foundation for Press Freedom lamented Guevara’s crime and asked the authorities to investigate his murder swiftly and to take his work as a journalist for the daily Q’hubo as their first hypothesis.