A Mexican journalist was fatally shot in Tijuana over the weekend, joining the latest victims in a spate of gun violence in the country, authorities said.

Lourdes Maldonado López, who covered politics and corruption, was shot inside a car in Tijuana’s Santa Fe neighborhood on Sunday, CNN reported.

Law enforcement responded around 7 p.m. local time and found her dead at the scene, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office said.

López had previously been the victim of attacks for her work, CNN reported. It’s unclear if authorities are considering that a possible factor in her death.

Back in March 2019, López told Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a press briefing that she feared for her life and asked for his support.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said on Twitter that it was “shocked” by López’s death and called on authorities to “transparently investigate” it.

López was the third journalist killed in the country in two weeks, the outlet reported.

Freelance photojournalist Alfonso Margarito Martínez Esquivel was fatally shot in Tijuana on Jan. 17, CNN reported. A week earlier, journalist Jose Luis Gamboa was found with fatal stab wounds in Veracruz.

The journalist’s death comes on the heels of the shooting of three Canadians at their five-star hotel in Playa del Carmen on Friday, officials said. Two of the victims died, while the third survived.

The hotel said the shooting appeared to be “targeted and isolated.”

Authorities continue to search for the shooter in that incident.

Back in November 2021, a shootout on the Puerto Morelos beach in Mayan Riviera left two suspected drug dealers dead. A month earlier, two tourists were killed in an apparent crossfire between rival drug dealers in Tulum. 

Nearly 1,500 national guard members were sent to reinforce security in the area.