CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, May 7 (UPI) -- A drug dealer killed the sons of two Mexican journalists over a $10,000 debt for drugs, Cesar Duarte, governor of Chihuahua state, said.
A man, identified as Jonathan Lozoya, was arrested Monday in the killings of brothers Alfredo and Diego Gonzalez Paramo, who were fatally shot in Chihuahua city on Sunday, El Universal reported Tuesday.
They were the sons of Martha Nicholson, publisher of the daily newspaper El Peso and David Paramo, a business reporter for a Mexico City newspaper, but the killings were not linked to their parents' professional activities, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general said.
Duarte said Diego Paramo bought the drugs so he could resell them.
The suspect "was a friend of Diego Gonzalez Paramo," he said.
"We have fully identified" the drugs and others involved, Duarte said, and state and federal police were tracking "the whereabouts of these people."
The victims' mother, meanwhile, told local media that her sons should be given "the benefit of the doubt ... that they were thugs" as the investigation proceeds, El Universal reported.
The Mexican National Human Rights Commission said 84 journalists have been killed in the country since 2000.
