The Venezuelan prosecutor’s workplace mentioned Monday it has launched an investigation into the livestreamed homicide of a preferred TikTok person who had denounced the Tren de Aragua legal gang and allegedly corrupt police officers.
Jesus Sarmiento, who had practically 80,000 followers on TikTok, was murdered over the weekend by armed males who broke into the residence the place he was staying.
Within the video shared on social media, a lady banging on a door and screaming for assist could be heard within the background.
“They shot me, they shot me,” Sarmiento says, as blood is seen on the ground. Two armed males seem briefly earlier than the stream ends.
“Lawyer Basic Tarek William Saab declares that the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace… has been tasked with investigating, figuring out, and punishing these accountable for the assassination of Jesus Sarmiento,” the prosecutor’s workplace introduced on Instagram on Monday.
Sarmiento had “denounced the threats he was receiving from members of GEDOS (Structured Organized Crime Group) and alleged cops,” the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
In his TikTok posts, Sarmiento spoke in regards to the chief of the Tren de Aragua, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero, who is likely one of the nation’s most needed criminals identified by the alias “Nino Guerrero.” The U.S. State Division has provided a $5 million reward for data resulting in his arrest and conviction.
The Venezuelan authorities has maintained that the Tren de Aragua — which the U.S. considers a “terrorist” group — has already been dismantled and denies its existence.
Sarmiento shared images and movies of alleged members of the gang and denounced the “extortion” by cops.
“I used to be kidnapped by… DAET — the police’s Directorate of Strategic and Tactical Actions,” he said in one in every of his remaining movies.
“We’re overrun with delinquent officers who work with frequent criminals,” he added.
Sarmiento’s homicide marks the newest in a string of lethal assaults on widespread social media figures.
Earlier this month, Pakistani police mentioned 17-year-old TikTok star Sana Yousaf was shot lifeless by a person who had repeatedly contacted her on-line.
And final month, the homicide of a younger influencer throughout a livestream in Jalisco, in western Mexico, shocked the nation. Authorities insisted there was no “proof” that the homicide of 23-year-old Valeria Márquez was linked to organized crime, and prosecutors opened an investigation for “femicide.”
