NYC Filmmaker Shot, Killed In Oaxaca, Mexico

Brad Will (Wheyler), a 36-year-old freelance journalist and videographer working for Indymedia, was fatally shot near Oaxaca City, Mexico while trying to conduct interviews about a five-month teachers strike there. Will had been in Mexico for six weeks. Osvaldo Ramirez, photographer for the daily paper Milenio, was also shot in the leg.

According to Indymedia, Will “was shot in the torso while documenting an armed, paramilitary assault on the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, a fusion of striking local teachers and other community organizations demanding democracy in Mexico.”

According to Will’s friend and colleague Al Giordano, Giordano had pled with his friend in an e-mail not to go to Oaxaca, and “to instead go to Atenco and report on the story there of the arrival of Zapatista comandantes”:

“Our Oaxaca team is firmly embedded.

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