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A Mexican influencer was shot to death Tuesday night while livestreaming on his social media accounts outside a restaurant in the troubled state of Sinaloa (northwest).
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César Gastelum, with more than 500,000 followers on TikTok, was doing a live broadcast alongside two friends, dressed as food delivery drivers as part of a challenge, when a motorcycle with two individuals stopped next to him and the driver shot him in the head.
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At that moment, the broadcast was interrupted, which was later removed by the platform, although news portals kept part of the video and have broadcast images of the attack.
The first reports from local police noted the death of a delivery driver, but with the recording and various testimonies, he was later identified as Gastelum, who according to the press was about 25 years old and shared lifestyle content.
The attack occurred in a busy shopping plaza near the Sinaloa prosecutor's office headquarters in Culiacán, the state capital.
Military and police were deployed while forensic experts collected evidence and removed the body, according to footage from local television stations.
This district has been shaken for two years by internal infighting of the powerful local cartel.
The local press points out that a dozen influencers, some of them allegedly related to criminal gangs, have been murdered in recent years in Sinaloa.
[Publicidad]