High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anton Hammerl (12 December 1969 – 5 April 2011) was a photojournalist who was shot and killed by troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi outside of Brega while covering the Libyan civil war on 5 April 2011. After his death, Hammerl`s family was led to believe by the Gaddafi regime that he was alive and safe but held in detention in Libya. His family learned about his death on 19 May after the release of a group of journalists who had been with Hammerl when he was killed.