A Colombian rapper who went lacking whereas on tour in Mexico has been discovered lifeless and recognized by his household, Mexican prosecutors stated Monday.
Rapper Bayron Sanchez, who used the stage identify B King, disappeared with Colombian DJ colleague Jorge Herrera on September 16 as they left a gymnasium in an unique neighborhood of Mexico Metropolis, their supervisor instructed Colombian radio.
Mexico Metropolis prosecutors stated that one other physique discovered on September 17 introduced “similarities” with that of Herrera, who carried out below the identify Regio Clown. His physique had but to be formally recognized.
“They instructed me they had been going to have lunch with two folks, however did not return any messages” thereafter, the musicians’ supervisor, Juan Camilo Gallego, instructed Colombia’s Blu Radio.
He stated he initially suspected that they’d been kidnapped, however acquired no ransom demand and reported them lacking to the authorities.
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The final video posted to B King’s Instagram on September 15 exhibits him in a dressing room preparing for a live performance in Mexico.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum stated earlier the boys’s disappearance was below investigation.
Reacting to stories of the 2 males’s deaths Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro wasted no time in claiming the pair had been “murdered.”
“They murdered our youth in america of Mexico,” Petro, a fierce critic of the U.S.-led conflict on medication, wrote on X, with out naming the victims.
“Extra younger folks murdered by an anti-drug coverage that isn’t an anti-drug trafficking coverage,” he wrote.
Final week, the Trump administration added Colombia to a listing of countries failing to cooperate within the drug conflict for the primary time in virtually 30 years.
Members of the family and pals of B King had posted photos of the singer on social media with requests for assist in discovering him.
Petro had on Sunday requested for Sheinbaum’s assist in discovering the pair and speculated that their disappearance was linked to “multinational mafias.”
Greater than 120,000 persons are listed as lacking in Mexico, a rustic affected by drug cartel violence.
Musicians have been focused by violence in Mexico in latest months. In August, Ernesto Barajas, a singer with the favored group Enigma Norteno, was gunned down within the metropolis of Zapopan in Jalisco state.
In Might, the our bodies of 5 musicians from the band Grupo Fugitivo had been discovered within the northern metropolis of Reynosa alongside the Texas border. Prosecutors stated a number of folks arrested within the case had been believed to be a part of a faction of the Gulf Cartel.
