Posted on: April 20, 2025 07:00 AM

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Journalist fatally shot in head in New York City restaurant in assassination

Crusading journalist Manuel de Dios Unanue, 49, was having a drink at Meson Asturias restaurant in Elmhurst, Queens when he was fatally shot on March 11, 1992.

The gunman, identified by the bartender as a man in his twenties, quickly fled the scene, according to the "Dangerous Work" episode of New York Homicide, which airs new episodes on Saturdays at 9/8c p.m. on Oxygen.

“Two shots in the back of the head,” Oscar Hernandez, who was a detective with the New York City Police Department’s 110th Precinct at the time, said on the show.

"This was an assassination,” Hernandez added.