Man of influence Valeria MárquezWho was shot dead in Mexico during a live transmission from Tiktok, may have been killed by a hired killer, according to prosecutors.
Denis RodríguezA spokesman for the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office told AP News that the death of the 23 -year -old was still under investigation.
Before Márquez was killed, Rodríguez said that a man who posed a delivery driver and another man on a motorcycle artined in the room located in the metropolitan area or Guadalajara. The men sought to deliver a gift to Márquez in person, which led her to worry about live broadcast.
“Maybe they were going to kill me,” Márquez said in the video, according to the exit. “They were going to come and take me, or what? I am worried.”
When the men returned, they looked for Márquez again. Rodriguez told him at the exit that the men who asked Márquez led prosecutors to believe that they were hired hired.
“The aggressor came asking if the victim was there. So it seems he did,” Rodriguez said. “With that, you can deduce, without reaching conclusions, that it was a person who was paid. Obviously, some were the ones who came with a purpose.”
AP reported that Márquez received a stuffed animal and a Starbucks coffee bag while he was in live broadcast and collapsed in the camera after receiving a shot. (Márquez Tiktok seemed to be retired after his death, but a video of the incident circulated online and was confirmed by the prosecutor’s office).
According to the departure, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum He said his administration is working with local researchers to locate the murderer and extended his condolences to Márquez’s family.
The news was known about Márquez’s death earlier this month, with the users who took to his Instagram, which has accumulated more than 475,000 followers, to share his condoles.
“I had the opportunity to meet in person, a person with a very beautiful energy energy,” a user user through Instagram, translated into English. “[I] I’m still shock [I] I can’t believe that I will never see it [livestream] Again. “
Rodríguez said previously The New York Times That men probably did not know Márquez.
“They didn’t have a personal relationship,” he explained at the exit. “He was simply his executioner.”
The prosecutor told him The New York Times That crime was being invested as a potential “femicide”, which means that when a woman is supposed to be killed due to her gender.