A Mexican social media influencer was shot useless throughout a reside stream on TikTok, the place she had tens of hundreds of followers, authorities stated Wednesday.
The Mexican press named her as Valeria Marquez, 23, who posted movies associated to magnificence and way of life, a few of which had lots of of hundreds of views.
She was killed on Tuesday night at her magnificence salon in Zapopan, a suburb of the western metropolis of Guadalajara, the Jalisco state prosecutor’s workplace reported.
“The sufferer is somebody with an energetic presence and affect on social media,” it stated in a press release. “A person entered the premises and apparently fired a gun at her.”
In accordance with the Reuters information company, Marquez was seen on the livestream saying, “they’re coming,” earlier than a voice off display screen requested “Hey, Vale?” Marquez replied “sure” earlier than muting the sound on the livestream and seconds later, she was fatally shot, Reuters reported.
@v___marquez through Instagram through Reuters
The motive of the assault was not instantly identified.
The area is a hotbed of legal exercise, residence to one among Mexico’s most violent drug trafficking teams, the Jalisco New Era Cartel. The group has been accused of utilizing pretend job commercials to lure new members and of torturing and killing recruits who resist
To date, nevertheless, investigators have discovered no proof {that a} legal group was behind the taking pictures, state safety coordinator Roberto Alarcon informed reporters.
Zapopan mayor Juan Jose Frangie stated that his workplace has no file of Marquez requesting assist from authorities due to threats towards her.
“It is unbelievable that you simply’re making a video and then you definitely’re murdered. A femicide is the worst factor,” Frangie stated.
In accordance with media reviews, Marquez was killed by a person pretending to convey her a present.
Just some hours later, a former congressman with the Mexican PRI social gathering, Luis Armando Córdova DÃaz, was additionally shot useless in a restaurant within the space, the Related Press reported. The state prosecutor’s workplace stated he was killed within the Valle Actual neighborhood of Zapopan.
The United Nations says that round 10 girls or women are murdered every single day in Mexico, the place legal and gender-related violence is rampant.
Since 2001, not less than 50,000 girls have been murdered in Mexico, based on the U.N, however solely 2% of instances finish in a legal sentence and just one in 10 victims reviews their aggressor.
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