The State - News from May 3, 1988

The president of Agua Caliente race track denied involvement in the slaying of a liberal Tijuana newspaper columnist, who police allege was gunned down on his way to work by track security officials. Asked at a news conference if it was possible he was behind the killing of Hector (Gato) Felix Miranda, track president Jorge Hank Rhon replied, “I suppose anything is possible. But the answer is no, I didn’t do it.� Attention has been focused on Hank, 32, since police reported the weekend arrest of the alleged triggerman, Victoriano Medina Moreno, a track security guard and former state judicial police officer. Authorities said Hank is not a suspect and there were no plans to question him. Felix, co-editor of the weekly Zeta and a satirist who frequently lampooned Mexico’s elite, was shot to death April 20 as he drove to work.