Peruvian journalist Pedro Flores Silva has died after hovering between life and death since being shot on 6 September.
The TV reporter, who worked on a Channel 6 programme, was attacked after being followed by a hooded man on a motorcycle in Nuevo Chimbote, in the Ancash region of northern Peru.
His widow, Mercedes Cueva, said he had received death threats in recent months in the form of text messages to his mobile phone.
She linked the threats to his work, saying the threats followed her husband's accusations of corruption against a district mayor, Marco Rivera Huertas.
Cueva said: "This was an attack against freedom of expression."
The mayor has publicly denied having any connection with the attack. He had launched a defamation lawsuit against Flores.
A month ago, Humberto Espinoza Maguiña - director of Radio Ancash - received a bullet with a letter that read: "Shut up unless you want this bullet to end up in your head."
