On February 3, in Ocotlán, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, two unidentified men in a car pulled up to a plot of land where Leyva, his sister, and his aunt were working, and asked for the journalist; when his aunt and sister approached the vehicle, the men opened fire, according to Leyva, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview, and news reports.
Mexican journalist Edgar Leyva in hiding after shooting attempt