Mexican influencer shot dead during TikTok livestream

Cesar Gastelum was killed as he sat in a car park with two others in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state. A Mexican social media influencer with 650,000 followers on TikTok has been killed while he was doing a livestream, authorities have said. Cesar Gastelum was shot dead on Tuesday in Culiacan, the capital of Mexico’s volatile Sinaloa state. The shooting took place near the local prosecutor’s office. A video of the moment of Gastelum’s death, seen by The Associated Press news agency, shows him laughing with two other men in the car park of a Kentucky Fried Chicken when two men pull up on a motorcycle.

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Scoop News DeskCuliacan · Published Wednesday, August 5, 2026 at 11:51 PM UTCUpdated Thursday, August 6, 2026 at 12:23 AM UTC

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1 dead — Cesar Gastelum Sinaloa has been ravaged by warring between two factions, Los Mayos and Los Chapitos, of the Sinaloa Cartel in recent years, with dead bodies left across the city marked with either faction’s signature. “We must find out why this deplorable homicide occurred,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told journalists during a Wednesday morning news conference. “Perpetrators must be arrested,” she added.