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Crime is shocking Mexico and being treated as a femicide. Latin media advance that the girl’s boyfriend is the main suspect of ordering her murder.
Valeria Márqueza 23 -year -old Mexican beauty influencer was mortally shot during a live broadcast on Tiktok, in what authorities are investigating as a femicide, an alarming problem that is growing in Mexico.
Márquez was broadcasting live from the beauty salon where he worked in Zapopan, Jalisco, when a man, who appeared to be a delivery man, entered the scene and fired at her.
Seconds before the shooting, the young woman appeared visibly disturbed in the chamber, clinging to a shelf and responding to a voice that called her by name.
He then silenced the broadcast live, but the transmission continued visually.
Moments later, they were fired fatal shots And someone appeared to take the mobile phone, briefly showing his face before the broadcast is over.
The office of the attorney of the state of Jalisco confirmed on Tuesday that the case is being treated as a femicidea legal classification in Mexico for murders motivated by misogyny, often involving brutality or a relationship between the victim and the aggressor.
Ricardo Ruiz Velazco, also known as “El Doble RR”, “RR” or “El Tripa”, is the main suspect in the crime, according to the local newspaper.
The publication cited Jalisco’s authorities to add that Velazco had a relationship with Márquez Several months ago and was bored that she received gifts from her fans. It is not known if the alleged suspect, who will also be the leader of a gang in the city, has already been arrested.
During the live broadcast, Márquez mentioned that someone had arrived at the hall with a present expensive for itselfbut that she was not there at the time. He told his followers that he did not intend to wait for the individual to return, a comment that now raises more doubts about whether it was his target.
Márquez had Almost 200 000 followers on Tiktok and Instagramwhere it regularly published content on beauty, make -up and lifestyle.
Its murder caused widespread indignation on the Internet and renewed appeals to greater protection of women in Mexico, a country marked by persistent violence against women, reports.
According to data from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean, Mexico is among the main countries in the region in terms of femicide, tied with Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, with 1.3 deaths per 100,000 women em 2023.
Jalisco, where the murder occurred, is Mexico’s sixtest state in terms of homicides in general. Since President Claudia Sheinbaum took office in October 2024, 906 homicides have been registered, according to Tresearch data.
