Beauty influencer shot dead during her TikTok livestream at a beauty salon in Mexico
Just a few hours later, a former congressman with the Mexican PRI party Luis Armando Córdova Díaz, was also shot dead in a cafe in the area.
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Prosecutors in Jalisco were still investigating, but the New Generation Jalisco Cartel maintains firm control over the region. State authorities said they were investigating Márquez's death as a possible femicide, an extreme case of gender-based violence common in Latin America where a woman is attacked due to her gender.
Márquez's social media accounts have been flooded by comments mourning her and expressing shock.
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