Colombian influencer shot dead days after livestreaming Mexican influencer was killed in similar hit

New York Post

19-05-2025

A 22-year-old Colombian model and influencer was shot and killed by a gunman disguised as a deliveryman — just days after a Mexican influencer was murdered in a similar ruse.
Maria Jose Estupinan, a university student in Colombia's northeastern city of Cucuta, was shot at close range as she opened a door to the bogus deliveryman, Magda Victoria Acosta, president of the National Gender Commission of the Colombian Judiciary, said in a news conference, per CNN.
3 Maria Jose Estupinan, a Colombian influencer, was shot and killed by a man who pretended to be a delivery driver.
Maria Jose Estupinan / Facebook
A nearby security camera showed the suspect running away from Estupinan's home after she was shot, with screams for help heard in the background, according to footage obtained by NDTV.
The incident occurred just days after Valeria Márquez, 23, was killed while livestreaming by a motorbike-riding killer who pretended to deliver a gift in her Blossom the Beauty Lounge salon in Jalisco, Mexico.
Estupinan — who posted pictures of her lavish travels and daily life — had previously reported an ex-partner for domestic abuse, Colonel Leonardo Capacho, commander of District One of the Cúcuta Metropolitan Police, said in a statement to Noticias Caracol.
3 Estupinan's murder happened just days after influencer Valeria Marquez was murdered while livestreaming in Mexico.
@v___marquez via REUTERS
'It could be an alleged femicide, since she filed several complaints for domestic violence in previous years, but that is a matter of investigation,' Capacho said
Her ex-partner had 'stalked her and abused her,' Alejandra Vera, director of the organization, Mujer Denuncia y Muévete, which translates to Women Report and Move, told the outlet.
Estupinan and Marquez's deaths have reignited conversations about femicide in the two countries south of the border.
3 Estupinan had previously reported an ex-partner for domestic abuse and was about to receive an award of 30 million pesos for the case.
Maria Jose Estupinan / Facebook
In Colombia, there were 633 femicides in 2022 and 630 in 2023, according to the PARES foundation.
Since 2001, at least 50,000 women have been murdered in Mexico, according to the United Nations.
'She was a young, enterprising woman with a whole life ahead of her, but those dreams are cut short like the dreams of many women in this country,' Acosta said of Estupinan.