VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — The daughters of a reporter slain in the Mexican state of Veracruz have told authorities that a woman angered by one of his stories threatened to have a drug cartel kill him.

The statements by Gregorio Jimenez’s daughters contradict the official version that the reporter was killed in a personal vendetta related to a relationship gone sour between one of his daughters and the son of the woman accused of ordering his death.