Last updated on June 23rd, 2025 at 07:25 pm
Days after Mexican TikToker Valeria Marquez was shot and killed during a live stream by an assassin who came as a delivery person, a Colombian influencer named Maria Jose Estupinan, popularly known as La Mona, was shot and killed by a gunman who also came as a delivery person.
La Mona’s shooting happened outside her home in Cucuta, Norte de Santander, on May 15, 2025, and a CCTV camera captured her killer running away on foot.
According to local media, the fake deliveryman came to her residence to deliver a gift that morning, and when she came out to receive it, he shot her in the face at close range.
Just like Valeria’s case, La Mona’s is also linked to femicide and her ex-boyfriend is been investigated as the prime suspect for her murder.
A day before her death, a court had ordered him to pay 30 million pesos (about $7,000) as compensation to her for the domestic violence suit she filed in 2018. La Mona was also said to have been in a relationship with a man killed weeks ago in a vehicle in Villa Antigua.
Up till her death, 22 year 22-year-old Maria Jose Estupinan was a seventh-semester student of Social Communication at the Francisco de Paula Santander University (UFPS) and was to begin her internship at Colombia’s regional public television network – Canal TRO. She was also a model and the owner of a clothing brand.
There is no official motive for her death, and the killer, who was simply described as “a man in a black cap, jacket, and jeans, carrying a backpack”, is yet to be identified.
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