Joseph Hernández Ochoa (? - March 1, 2010) was a Honduran journalist and television presenter. He hosted an enterntainment show on the Honduran television network, Channel 51[1] and was a journalism student at the National Autonomous University of Honduras.[2]
On March 2, 2010, Ochoa was driving a colleague, Karol Cabrera, a host on a private radio station, Radio Cadena Voces, through the El Chile neighborhood of Tegucigalpa.[1] The two journalists were ambushed by gunmen around 8 p.m.[1] Ochoa was shot several times and died at the scene of the attack.[1] Cabrera, who had received death threats before the attack, suffered gunshot wounds to her left arm, but survived the attack.[1] Ochoa was 26 years old.[1]