Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colo., United States
July 2, 2012

Armando Montano, an aspiring journalist who was working this summer as a news intern for The Associated Press in the Mexican capital, was found dead early Saturday. He was 22 years old.

Montano’s body was found in the elevator shaft of an apartment building near where he was living in the capital’s Condesa neighborhood. The circumstances of his death were being investigated by Mexican authorities.

The Colorado Springs, Colorado, resident arrived in Mexico City in early June after graduating from Grinnell College with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a concentration in Latin American studies.

Editor Notes: 

Also reported in: Washington Post, CBS News, MSNBC.com, Denver Post, Huffington Post,  numerous outlets republishing AP story

Followup stories: Chronicle of Higher Education, Colorado Springs Gazette,  Des Moines Register, ABC 5, WHO TV, Poynter.com, International Business Times, Time, Hispanically Speaking NewsColumbia Journalism Review

Tributes: Scarlet&Black, Legacy.com, National Press Club, Colorado Independent

Service at Colorado College chapel, Sun., July 15 at 10 a.m.: Denver Post, Denver CBS

Information about a fall Grinnell campus memorial service will be made available as soon as plans are complete.

Two scholarships have been set up in honor of Montano. Those wishing to make a contribution can send checks to:

Armando Montaño Scholarship Fund

The New York Times Student Journalism Institute

PO Box 2690

Times Square Station

New York, NY 10108

Mando Montaño's Scarlet & Black Fund

Grinnell College

Grinnell, Iowa 50112

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