Popular beauty influencers shot during Tikok Livestream in their salon in Mexico

A Mexican Social Media Influencer was shot during a live stream in Tiktok, where she had tens of thousands of supporters, the authorities announced on Wednesday.

The Mexican press cited her as Valeria Marquez (23), who published videos on beauty and lifestyle, a few hundreds of thousands of prospects.

The public prosecutor's office of Jalisco reported on Tuesday evening in her beauty salon in Zapopan, a suburb of the western city of Guadalajara.

“The victim is someone with an active presence and influence on social media,” says an explanation. “A man entered the site and apparently fired a weapon on her.”

According to the Reuters news agency, Marquez was seen on the live stream and said: “You come” before a voice in front of the screen “Hey, Vale?” Marquez replied “yes” before she tuned the sound on the livestream, and seconds later she was fatally shot, Reuters reported.

The motive of the attack was not immediately known.

The region is a breeding site of criminal activities in which one of the most violent drug trade groups Mexico is native to Jalisco New Generation Cartel. The group was accused of using fake job advertisements to attract new members and from Torture and kill recruits Who opposes

So far, however, the investigators have not found any evidence that a criminal group was behind the shootout, the state security coordinator Roberto Alarcon told reporters.

The mayor of Zapopan, Juan Jose Frangie, said his office had no records that Marquez asks for help from the authorities due to threats against them.

“It is unbelievable that they are making a video and then murdered. Femicide is the worst,” said Frangie.

According to media reports, Marquez was killed by a man who pretended to bring her a gift.

Just a few hours later, Luis Armando Córdova Díaz, a former congress member of the Mexican Pri party, was also shot in a café in the region, reported the Associated Press. The public prosecutor said he was killed in the actual quarter of Zapopan.

The United Nations say that around 10 women or girls are murdered in Mexico every day, where criminal and gender -specific violence is widespread.

According to the United Nations, at least 50,000 women have been murdered in Mexico since 2001, but only 2% of cases end in a criminal prison sentence and only every tenth victim reports their attacker.