A Mexican YouTuber Nana Pelucas, was shot to death by cartel members in the restaurant she owned in the tourist zone of Acapulco. According to a state prosecutor, she was murdered for share sensitive information about the cartels in her videos.
She was 36 years old when she was shot at the head by two assassins.
Guerrero state chief prosecutor Xavier Olea said that Leslie Ann Pamela Montenegro, as she was known in real life, was threatened by the leader of a drug gang, which was formerly affiliated with the Independent Cartel of Acapulco.
The YouTuber "used a big wig and glasses to deliver chatty comic commentary and criticisms, some concerning the local government," according to the Associated Press.
Montenegro had her own channel on YouTube called El Sillón TV, on which she used to interview public officials and voice her political positions.
Previously, Montenegro had also been threatened by a corrupt government official who had ties to the cartel. Reportedly, she had been accused of being a government informant and making anonymous online comments about the drug gang.
This isn't the first that a social media influencer was killed by cartels.
In December 2017, another YouTuber, a 17-year-old Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales, was found dead with over bullet holes in his body, soon after posting a video where he said infamous gang leader El Mencho "can suck my dick."
El Mencho heads the New Generation Cartel in Jalisco.