A TikTok star from Mexico was fatally shot near her home last week.
Karla Pardini, 21, was at her house in Culiacan — in the state of Sinaloa — on Sept. 20 when she received a “suspicious” call around 10:30 p.m. instructing her to go outside. She never returned.
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“According to information provided by her mother, she received a call, went outside and that’s when the attack occurred,” Sinaloa prosecutor Sara Bruna Quinonez told Jam Press, according to the New York Post.
Authorities found Pardini’s body the next day at a nearby intersection, her body riddled with bullets.
The influencer was ambushed and shot multiple times, the Sinaloa State Attorney General’s Office told the news agency.
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No arrests have been made, and the suspects are still at large, though witnesses reported seeing armed individuals in the area prior to the slaying.
Investigators are registering Pardini’s alleged murder as “a femicide because she was exposed and in a state of helplessness when the attack took place.”
They added: “We are carrying out the investigation with the utmost secrecy so as not to alert the possible suspect.”
Pardini has more than 91,000 followers on TikTok where she often posted dance, workout and fashion content.
Her last video, which had 1.6 million views and was posted two days before her death, translates to, “When they tell me they don’t like me. In short, I hope you like me less.”
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