MEXICO CITY — A social media influencer was shot to dying whereas doing a TikTok livestream at a magnificence salon within the central Mexican state of Jalisco, state authorities confirmed Wednesday.
The stark present of violence fueled shock within the Latin American nation at a time when rival cartels have fought bloody wars for territorial management in a lot of Mexico.
Valeria Márquez, 23, appeared to have been talking to a supply man off digicam on her livestream Tuesday when she was shot as soon as within the chest and as soon as within the head and collapsed, dying immediately. The mannequin and sweetness influencer was inside a magnificence salon within the municipality of Zapopan, the fringes of Guadalajara, when it occurred.
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.
Prosecutors in Jalisco had been nonetheless investigating, however the New Technology Jalisco Cartel maintains agency management over the area. State authorities stated they had been investigating Márquez’s dying as a doable femicide, an excessive case of gender-based violence widespread in Latin America the place a girl is attacked as a result of her gender.
Márquez’s social media accounts have been flooded by feedback mourning her and expressing shock.
