Mexican drug lord ‘had beauty influencer shot dead by hitman during live TikTok stream after she split up with his son’

A Mexican drug lord ordered a hitman to kill a beauty influencer because she had broken up with his son, authorities have claimed. 

Valeria Marquez was live streaming to her followers from inside her beauty salon, Blossom the Beauty Lounge, in Zapopan, the western Mexican state of Jalisco, when a motorbike-riding gunman opened fire last May.

Prosecutors are now accusing Ramon Angel Alvarez Ayala, a senior figure in the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) – considered to be one of Mexico‘s most powerful criminal organisations, of ordering her murder, as well as a local mayor’s.

Ayala – more commonly known as ‘El R1’ – was captured in a special forces operation on Thursday after a car chase in Jalisco, which saw a member of his security team killed.

Omar Garcia Harfuch, the federal security secretary, has gone on to further claim that El R1’s son, Francisco Alvarez, who had been in a relationship with Marquez, phoned his father to organise the hit after their relationship ended. 

The cartel leader allegedly ordered the hitman to enter Marquez’s salon, posing as a delivery driver, where he then asked for the 23-year-old TikToker and aesthetician to confirm her identity.

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