Photojournalist Carlos Saavedra was on assignment to photograph the judge when the incident happened. The magazine wrote that the judge, as he was leaving for home in his car, told the photojournalist to come closer then pointed the gun at the journalist when he approached telling him "to be careful."
In an attempt to justify his behavior, the judge told local media that he thought the journalist was a robber and that he didn't show any credentials. “He couldn’t have thought I was someone else because my camera was the only thing I had in my hands,” Saavedra told the Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ).
