A 23 -year influence was shot dead on Tuesday in a beauty hall in Jalisco, Mexico, while I was broadcasting live on Tiktok, according to the state prosecutor’s office.
The influence, Valeria Márquez, was working in the living room in Zapopan, part of the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, and transmitting to some of his 113,000 followers on Tiktok, when two men outside on a motorcycle, Denis Rodríguez, a spokesman for the state of Jalisco in the state of the prosecutor’s office. One of the men entered the living room with a mask, looking for Mrs. Márquez.
“Hey, he asked directly:” Are you Valeria? “Rodríguez said. She replied:” Yes. “
Then, the man took out a gun and shot him before climbing the motorcycle and fleeing.
The Tiktok account of Mrs. Márquez seemed to have been low tasks on Wednesday, but a video of the murder that circulated online, which was confirmed by the prosecutor’s office, He showed her sitting in a chair in the living room, holding a pink teddy pig in her lap, before looking elsewhere in the camera. A moment later he grabs his chest and stomach before falling into his chair. The face of another woman is seen before the video is cut.
When the researchers arrived later, “she was still sitting in the chair, where she was surprised, with that doll, the small pig, right in her arms,” Mr. Rodríguez said.
The prosecutor said he had no suspects, but that he was reviewing surveillance images and combing his social networks to obtain clues about who could be the attackers. The men, who visited the store earlier in the day, saying they were trying to deliver a gift for the EM. Márquez, most likely he didn’t know her personally, since they had to ask for her by name, Rodríguez said.
“They didn’t have a personal relationship,” he said. “He was simply his executioner.”
The prosecutor said that he was investigating crime as a possible “femicide”, a type of gender violence against women. Such attacks are often unpunished in Mexico.
The death of Mrs. Márquez was the last reminder of the increase in violence against women in the country.
The murder occurred days after Yesenia Lara Gutiérrez, a candidate for mayor in the state of Veracruz, was shot dead along with the march of a campaign of another three years on Sunday, an attack that was also captured in a cattle ranch.
A recording of that transmission, which was published on the Facebook page of Mrs. Gutiérrez and was still online until Wednesday night, showing it by shaking the hands of the residents and marching with their followers through the streets, before it sounds a series of shootings. Moments later, some of their followers can be heard screaming, while others flee from the scene, before the camera darkens.
Mexico has promulgated a series of local and federal laws in recent years to combat gender -based violence that ages women, but the country still has one of the highest femicide rates in the world.
Violence is the product of a culture of “machismo”, entrenched sexism and institutions that resist recognizing their own responsibility for gender violence, said Paulina García-Vel Moral, associate professor of sociology at the University of Gulph.
“There is still a sense of law among many or in Mexico, and in other parts of Latin America and the world, they feel entitled to the bodies of women,” Dr. Go. Said García-Off’s moral. “It has been shown that it is very resistant and resistant to change.”
A study in 2023 of a group of academics in the femicide of Mexico has been increasing in the country for almost a decade, surpassing other violent crimes, with around 10 or 11 women killed every day.
According to the United Nations, more than 50,000 women were killed from 2001 to 2024, with less than 5 percent of cases that result in convictions.
The state actors not investigating, or when they do, minimize violence when focusing on gender stereotypes, such as what a female victim or the elections he could do at his death, Mrs. García-Off’s moral. “Comply with practically the fault,” he added.
After Mrs. Márquez was shot, the users flooded her TAP account with messages that express shock and condolences. Some questioned if the footage was real. Tiktok did not respond immediately to a comment request.
It is not clear that the person who attacked EM. Márquez knew that he was broadcasting live, but, Mrs. García-Off Moral said: “Any son of public feminicide moves to send a statement, whether broadcast live or not: that men can kill women with impunity.”
“Feminicidal violence in Mexico is so deep and so wide that it is not necessarily protected by the virtue of being or a richer socioconomic status, or being a political or living being,” he added. “It doesn’t matter.”
Kuyper McKinnon Contributed reports.
