A 23-year-old Mexican social media star has been shot dead during a live broadcast at a beauty salon in the Mexican state of Jalisco, the BBC and Reuters reported, the vicious violence shocked the country. Mexican president Claudia Zimbaum spoke on the 15th local time, offering condolences to the families of the victims and saying Mexican security agencies are investigating.
Simbaum, file photo, from the media
“The investigation is ongoing and the first step is to find out who is responsible and the motive behind the incident,” Singbaum was quoted by Reuters as saying. “We offer our condolences to her family.”.
The internet star, Marcos Paulo Souza Ribeiro, has nearly 200,000 followers on social media, the BBC said. Shortly before her death, Marcos Paulo Souza Ribeiro was sitting at a table at a beauty salon in sapopan, Jalisco, holding a stuffed animal in his hand as he went on the air. A few seconds later, she was shot, and the broadcast ended when another person picked up her phone and stopped recording. The BBC quoted local media as saying that Marcos Paulo Souza Ribeiro had been killed by a man pretending to give her a gift.
Marcos Paulo Souza Ribeiro, file photo, English media
The prosecutor was quoted by the BBC as saying that the motive for the fatal attack had not yet been established, but that it was being investigated as a case of the killing of women, that is, the killing of women and girls because of their sex. “Killing women is the worst thing,” said Frangi, the mayor of SAPOPAN.