Valeria Marquez: TikTok beauty influencer shot dead during live stream at beauty salon in Zapopan, Mexico

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Valeria Marquez: TikTok beauty influencer shot dead during live stream at beauty salon in Zapopan, Mexico

Beauty influencer Valeria Marquez was speaking with followers on a TikTok live stream on Tuesday when she was shot dead.

The shocking moment was seen by some of Marquez’s near 200,000 followers who are now calling for justice over the beauty influencer’s brutal slaying.

Marquez was sitting in the beauty salon where she worked in the city of Zapopan, when a man entered and shot her, a statement from the prosecutor’s office said.

The office did not name a suspect.

Seconds before the incident, Marquez was seen on her TikTok livestream seated at a table clutching a stuffed toy. She was heard saying, “they’re coming,” before a voice in the background asked “Hey, Vale?”

“Yes,” Marquez replied, just before muting the sound on the livestream.

Moments later, she was shot to death. A person appeared to pick up her phone, with their face briefly showing on the livestream before the video ended.

The death of Marquez, 23, is being investigated according to protocols for femicide – the killing of women or girls for reasons of gender – the Jalisco state prosecutor said in a statement released on Tuesday evening.

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Marquez had said earlier on the live stream that someone came to the salon when she was not there with an “expensive gift” to deliver to her. Marquez, who appeared concerned, said she was not planning to wait for the person to come back.

Mexico is tied with Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia as the countries with the fourth-highest rates of femicide in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the latest data from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, at 1.3 such deaths for every 100,000 women in 2023.

Jalisco is ranked sixth out of Mexico’s 32 states, including Mexico City, for homicides, with 906 recorded there since the beginning of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s term in October 2024, according to data consultancy TResearch.

– With Reuters

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