Valeria Marquez: Mexican influencer shot during TikTok livestream appeared to be killed by hit man
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MEXICO CITY — A social media influencer was shot dead during a TikTok live stream in Jalisco, Mexico. The incident appeared to be an assassination, and the victim expressed fear prior to the killing, according to prosecutors on Thursday.

The tragic death of 23-year-old Valeria Márquez on Tuesday has devastated the nation, stirring speculation about the motive in a region plagued by cartel-related violence. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the government’s collaboration with local authorities to identify the perpetrator, while expressing sympathy to Márquez’s family.

Denis Rodríguez, from the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office, shared additional insights into the murder, noting that investigations continue into the death of the model and beauty influencer, who had over 113,000 followers on TikTok.

A popular TikTok influencer was shot dead at her beauty salon in Mexico during a livestream.

Rodríguez said that early Tuesday afternoon, hours before the shooting, a masked man posing as a delivery driver arrived at the beauty salon on the outskirts of Guadalajara, accompanied by another man on a motorcycle. According to a woman in the salon, the men said they had a “very expensive” gift for Márquez that they had to deliver in person. When Márquez arrived and heard people were looking for her she expressed fear in her livestream.

“Maybe they were going to kill me,” she said in the video minutes before she was killed. “Were they going to come and take me away, or what? I’m worried.”

When the men returned, they asked if it was Márquez who was now in the salon, something that prompted prosecutors to believe that the men were hired assassins, Rodríguez said.

“The aggressor arrived asking if the victim (Márquez) was there. So it appears he didn’t know her,” Rodríguez said. “With that, you can deduce – without jumping to conclusions – that this was a person who was paid. It was obviously someone who came with a purpose.”

Márquez was handed a stuffed animal and a bag of Starbucks coffee while she was on the livestream, and was shot in the head and the chest, collapsing on camera. TikTok has since taken down the influencer’s account.

While it was still unclear who was behind the killing, the region is firmly controlled by one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and Rodríguez noted murders by hired guns on motorcycles, often known as “sicarios,” have become a common occurrence.

Rodríguez said that authorities were also investigating if the death was connected to the murder of a former congressman just hours earlier in the same area of Guadalajara, also carried out by two men on a motorcycle.

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