'Maybe they were going to kill me,' Valeria Marquez said minutes before being shot
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Some of the last words of Valeria Marquez, the Mexican influencer who was shot and killed Tuesday during a TikTok livestream in her beauty salon on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, were: 'Maybe they were going to kill me. Were they going to come and take me away, or what? I'm worried.'
On Thursday, CBS News quoted Denis Rodríguez, a spokesperson for the Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office, which is investigating the murder. Rodríguez told the broadcaster that on Tuesday afternoon, hours before the shooting, a masked man posing as a delivery driver had arrived at the salon with another man on a motorcycle.
The men said they had a 'very expensive' gift for Marquez that they had to deliver in person. When she later heard that people were looking for her, she expressed her fear in her livestream.
Shortly after her remark about being worried, a man off-screen called out, 'Hey Vale!' Marquez answered 'Yes?' before muting the livestream.
She was then handed a stuffed animal and a bag of Starbucks coffee before being shot in the head and chest and collapsing on camera, Rodríguez said, per CBS News.
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