Cartel Boss Arrested in Influencer’s Live Killing, but Viewers Still Suspect Her BFF is Involved

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1:42She owns her own beauty salon and she was on TikTok live stream when she is ultimately shot three times and killed. A lot of people have opinions on what and who is the person that did this to her. It's a delivery man. But go listen to part one. And in part two, we're going to break down the entire full live stream, the arrests and what people think happened. Valeria Marquez starts her last TikTok live stream May 13th, 2025. She's sitting inside her Blossom Beauty Lounge, and it looks like she's near the receptionist desk, like she's behind it. And it's just like a green wall behind her. and mainly you just see Valeria in frame.

2:21You don't really see anything else. And it does appear to be somewhat of a slow day. Or perhaps it's close to closing time and they don't have a lot of walk-ins coming through. There is music playing in the back, but it's, I mean, it's a salon. So it's not a club. You can hear Valeria. The music is very background noise. And then there's really not much else. She's wearing a tight pink bodysuit. This is very pertinent later. She's wearing white jeans. And the first 45 minutes of this live stream, it feels beyond ordinary. She's answering questions about her eyelash extensions. She's talking about how her head hurts a little bit.

2:55She has a headache. The comments are asking her, are you going to stay there all day? And she says, no, no, no. She plans on leaving soon. She says she's extremely tired, just not feeling great. It seems like very early on in the live stream, the last remaining client leaves. So it's just Valeria and one of her employees, Erica, in the entire salon. It's just two of them. Is Erica in frame or no? She comes in frame briefly, like her face is kind of here and there, but not really at all. And it seems like she's doing things in the background. So when she's even talking to Valeria, her voice will sound sometimes more distant, sometimes a little bit closer.

3:30She's just in that vicinity. Now, the question that people have is, okay, well, it's near closing time and you guys are both there. You don't have any clients and you're saying your head hurts. Why don't you just leave? Or like, why don't you leave it for Erica to close the store? Is that the best thing a boss can do? Probably not, but it would make sense. so it's just Valeria and her employee Erica why are they not leaving it just doesn't it's kind of odd to the point where comments are pointing that out and Valeria responds well the only reason that she's not leaving and she's staying is because her employee Erica told her some delivery driver came by earlier today so at this point Valeria had stepped out to go to the doctor's office Erica's alone she's managing the salon and a delivery driver comes up with this mysterious gift in a black bag.

4:15And he's like, this is for Valeria. Erica's like, okay, well, that's my boss. So I can just sign something. Like you can just give it to me. She's about to be back in an hour. He says, no, it's a very expensive delivery and I can only leave it with Valeria. But because Erica's like, okay, well, she's not here and she's going to be back in like an hour. Why don't you just come back in an hour? And he says, okay, I'll come back in an hour. It's been way longer than an hour. So this is around 2.30. It's closer to 6 right now. Valeria is so confused by this. Like she, it seems that she was told by Erica all of this before she starts the TikTok live stream.

4:50And as she's explaining it to the comments of why she's staying, even though she has a, like a headache, she's kind of confused. As she's explaining it, she's also kind of confused. And she's asking like, Erica, do you know what the delivery was? Did he mention where it's from, who it's from? And Erica's like, I have no clue. I just knew it was in a black bag. I don't even know what was in there. Valeria's like, okay, well, I guess I have to wait, but I'm like falling asleep. Erica reassures her it was a black bag, but it was like one of those present like gift bags. They get a little distracted with work stuff.

5:23And then Erica eventually brings up the topic of the present again. She says, you know, they're making us get excited. Valeria, on the other hand, seems a little more skeptical. And I don't know if this is just her blunt humor coming into play but she says dude maybe they're gonna kill me that is wild i don't know if it's right after she does keep dancing to the music but her tone does seem a little bit strange a little concerned and i don't know if all of this is in hindsight and i'm overthinking it but it's just odd valeria reassures her viewers no guys it was just a present but i don't know who sent it it it was like somewhat translucent right like there was little stars on the bag So she's like confirming with Erica off screen.

6:05Something expensive? Because it wasn't a delivery man. Like they would have left something if it was a delivery man, right? Like a regular delivery guy. Like Amazon or UPS would probably just leave it. Valeria is confused by the whole thing, just repeating to herself. But if it wasn't a delivery man, then who? 23 minutes into the stream, Valeria gets a message from her best friend Vivian and announces it. She's like, oh, Vivian just texted me. And she's texting Vivian and they're talking about an upcoming surgery that Valeria has. like an elective surgery as she's texting she turns back to erica and talks about the delivery again and she's like dude i'm still worried she's you said that you couldn't see his face he was wearing something like you know the motorcyclist wear like a like a you know helmet thingy but it didn't go over his whole head and what did he say that he was going to come back in an hour i don't know i just saw him coming in here valeria looks at the camera with like big eyes like like you know when you look at someone like what what does that mean yeah yeah as if she's terrified but she doesn't look scared it's kind of more like what like you know that look yeah yeah and she responds they're gonna snatch me or what that's crazy she looks around turns back to the live stream and she's like telling her live stream comments no i don't know what's going on but like who could it be girls i think i'm gonna go because i'm getting creeped out she says she couldn't see his face but it was a delivery man but like not a delivery man but a delivery man 20 minutes before the killing, so 34 minutes and like 55 seconds into the live stream, Valeria announces that Vivian texted her that she needs to stay and wait because Vivian wants to see her face.

7:41Later, Vivian describes this as taken out of context, but we're gonna just go down with the live stream. Valeria drops her phone and shouts, hurry up, bitch, because I have to leave. Valeria says, what is this bitch gonna send me? So now Vivian is saying, no, you have to wait because I want to see your face not because of the mysterious delivery man but because I've sent you a surprise what yeah a separate one separate oh so Valeria is like what is this bitch gonna send me dude is she gonna send me some stupid shit I swear Erica says then the delivery driver would have just left it with her if it was something stupid so like there's like I think everyone's miscommunicating here right so Erica is like no no I don't think the delivery driver was going to leave you something stupid.

8:24And so Valeria is like, no, I mean Vivian. She's going to send me something too. Valeria says she's tired. She's sweating. She just wants to go home. Meanwhile, Erica clarifies she tried to take the gift from the guy, but he was intent that it had to be directly to Valeria. Then a male voice is in the background. Suddenly someone has entered the studio. Someone walked in. Hello? Hi, good afternoon. On behalf of Vivian, Valeria stands up and sits back down with a Starbucks bag. And she's very smiley. Vivian, dude, just say you're into me. She opens the bag, pulls out her very favorite Starbucks drink, which is a dragon fruit lemonade refresher.

9:00Then another male voice. Hello, good afternoon. On behalf of Vivian, Valeria gets up, comes back into frame, and it's like a mini-so bag. You know, the Japanese. Yeah, mini-so. She pops it open and opens a stuffed toy, like a little stuffed pig. Valeria's hugging it. She's screaming, it's a little pig. Dude, Vivian is in love with me, I swear. She starts posing with the stuffed pig. It smells like ass, but I will ignore that. I love you, slut. Marry me. I love it. Vivian, do you want to be my girlfriend here in front of the audience? I have never confessed to anyone, but I think you're the love of my life.

9:33We should date for real, dude. She reads the message from Vivian out loud. Because you're all pink today. She poses with her president and announces, I will stay until fucking seven then because I'm a responsible boss. But tomorrow, I'm not going to be here, so don't fuck with me. I'm just playing. I'll still come. So she's saying, I'm just kidding. I'm still going to come into the salon. She starts going back to answering the live comments. Do you like women? No, but I feel like the love of my life is Vivian. I'm looking for a man, but men aren't worth shit. Girls are nicer, more thoughtful, so on.

10:03They go back to talking about the delivery man. Erica says the delivery man came around 2.30 p.m. And she's like, I told him that you'd be back in an hour, and now it's six. Valeria goes back to reading comments. They should be here by now then. And she's like, exactly. So a comment is like, they should be here by now. And she's like, exactly. Could it be a fan? Maybe, but like, why wouldn't they just leave it? You know? Erica jokes, maybe he thought I was like a thief. Valeria turns to Erica, but did he, I mean, was he a delivery man? Did he look like a delivery man or a bodyguard? No, a delivery man.

10:37Now, side note, a lot of influential people, politicians, wealthy businessmen, and high up traffickers tend to have bodyguards in Mexico. so that was a very pertinent relevant question valeria starts asking erica questions was he small or tall medium like my height but who i cannot think of anyone like they would have told me that they're getting me a gift she starts answering more comments a delivery man would just leave it the gift yeah exactly does the stuffed animal have a gps oh no no this is sent by vivian dude so they're like asking oh the stuffed animal who is it sent by like that's creepy.

11:12So her comments are getting a little skeptical too. And she's like, no, no, no, this is from Vivian. Dude, I don't know. Erica told me it was like a box or like a black gift bag with little stars and it had something very expensive inside. So they wanted me to receive it and take a picture of me with the gift, but I have no idea who could have sent it. I'm not seeing someone like I would say, oh, well then the guy that I'm seeing probably sent it. But no, I don't know. This is creepy, right? He said he's going to come back in an hour, 2.30 PM. It's like now 6 p.m. Erica further clarifies, I was here.

11:44And he said, Valeria Marquez. And I said, yes, like he thought it was me. And he doubted, like she's not here. And I told him, no, but this is her business and you can leave it here. There's no problem. I can deliver it to her. And he said, I was told to take a picture with her with it. And I said, then wait for her. But I don't know when she's going to get back, probably in an hour. And he said, well, because of the price, I can't just leave it with you. And I told him, well, if you want, I can call her. If she says, you can leave it. You can probably leave it. Right. And he's like, no, I'm going to be back.

12:14And then finally, 55 minutes in Valeria says he's coming. So, you know, the windows are glass in the salon so she can see a man approaching and Erica must recognize the guy because she chimes in. Oh, yes. Because if it wasn't the same delivery guy, she wouldn't have said that. You hear a male voice in the background, very calm, like very cheery almost. Hello. and Vivian responds, hello. The delivery man sounds friendly and he asks Valeria Marquez. Yes. Valeria leans forward, mutes the live stream and a few seconds later you see her holding her stomach with her mouth open. You don't see a lot of blood.

12:52It's almost like she had a stomach cramp hit. Like it's almost, I don't know if maybe like if someone hit her in the stomach with something, Like it's a shocked face, but almost calm in the sense of you don't see a lot of, you don't see anything visually. She has been shot. There's not a lot of blood. The bullet seems oddly small. You can, you almost don't even see it in the live stream. And then you do because she shot twice in the head. Again, it's a small bullet. There is not a lot of blood, but you can see her body fall forward. You can see her body go limp. Her face is covered by her hair.

13:28She's slightly out of frame. I mean, not much. Her face is out of frame, but her whole body is in frame because she's still live streaming. She's clutching the stuffed pig and it almost is like her body goes rigid. And within seconds, you see the phone camera get pointed towards the ceiling and you see the employee, Erica, turn off the live stream. What? Now, this whole thing is muted. So we don't know if the delivery man said anything else to Valeria before or whilst or after shooting her or what Erica's reaction was because it's muted. But her face, I mean, she's not screaming. It seems like her face is almost like determined.

14:03I don't know how to describe her face. Other people have said she looks indifferent, casual, determined. Like those are the words that are most frequently used to describe her expression. That's crazy. But the employee was there watching the whole thing and nothing happened to her. That's the big point of contention in a moment. all the police know right off the bat is that this must be a contract killing like that's it there's no the delivery man yes he is the one that pulls the trigger he is the one that physically kills valeria and he of course needs to be arrested however it's very clear that someone hired him to do this he has no relation with valeria he's here for a target it seems like he came back to make sure it's valeria like this is just a job to him he's clearly been paid to fulfill an order but who is the one that ordered it a lot of people initially thought it was erica you know because they're wondering why is the first thing that she did is turn off the camera it doesn't make sense she would also technically i mean just statistically she would probably be dead too because a lot of the times when if you're this ballsy to take out an influencer who's live streaming on tiktok with a lot of fans that are watching you probably don't care to also kill her employee just so you leave no witnesses so his face was not fully covered right you don't see him on camera though but not fully covered erica would have seen right erica earlier said that he was wearing like a helmet but not fully covering the face so she could kind of identify him yeah and she could probably identify his motorcycle or like i'm assuming he walked in with certain yeah so would she not have been dead too not that people are wishing that an additional person would have died, but it just didn't make any sense.

15:48On top of the fact that she looked really calm, a lot of people are saying, put yourself in that position. If you are Erica and you don't know if you're next, you're not ending a live stream. You're begging for your life. You're screaming. You're taking cover. You're doing something. Like the live stream is the last thing that would be on your mind if you're Erica. One person theorizes if Erica hadn't set up Valeria, she would have gotten killed too. It just doesn't make sense because who's going to let a witness live? They both would have been killed but there's just people i think the hard part is a lot of people think erica is suspicious and they think that she may have been in on it maybe she didn't know what was going to happen maybe she was paid to keep her boss all day maybe she thought it was going to be something good like she genuinely thought her boss was going to get a cute surprise no one knows right but they don't think that she's the one that would have all this incentive to want valeria dead no motive no motive but then like who does but does she talk does she give only to the police okay so do we know the version no really so when she took turn off the live we're assuming that's after the the hitman has left or is it the process of walking out but it seems pretty fast we don't know but it was pretty fast it's hard to give you an exact timeline because yeah it was pretty fast okay yeah that's all we have are like re-uploaded clips and um i probably wouldn't advise you trying to hunt down the clip most of the clips have cut out the part where after she mutes it the clip ends so it's hard to say if there was any alter altering of the facts but it seemed pretty quick

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19:09And I guess you can't rule out an obsessed fan or a stalker or some sort of admirer, but this does feel a lot more personal than that. So the people's next best guess on the internet is maybe it's Vivian, the only other person that was interacting with Valeria during this live stream that has maybe some sort of motive. Vivian is the friend that people thought was jealous of Valeria this entire time. One person comments, my parents always warned me jealousy can be deadly. Another writes, once all the signs add up to jealousy, I'm out because you never know what happens. People also point out that Vivian kept telling Valeria to stay because she wanted her to get her gifts and wanted to see her reactions to said gifts.

19:47But Vivian says, you guys are taking it all just out of context. She explains later in an interview, this is after Valeria's death. She says, I always give Valeria gifts. Like when Valeria is live streaming, I'm always sending her gifts specifically like through Uber Eats. So in a different live stream, you know, Valeria is reading her comments and Vivian is telling her to eat something. Eventually there's a knock on the door. Valeria looks shocked but like not in a bad way she says I didn't order anything it's for Valeria Marquez me I didn't order anything she takes the bag and she's like who the hell is this from is this Vivian it's a dragon fruit refresher from Starbucks it's my favorite then that means it's from Vivian fuck me if it's not from Vivian Vivian texts Valeria from who else could it be Valeria laughs and in other clips Vivian and Valeria are both live streaming together getting ready to go out Valeria's at home Vivian's at home Vivian's about to go to Valeria's and she's like I'm gonna pick you up Starbucks on the way.

20:41And they both kind of do like this baby voice with each other. Other videos show Valeria showing off a bouquet of flowers she got from Vivian. And Vivian just describes, you know, with my close friends, the friends that I truly love, I'm always really thoughtful. I'm always really thoughtful. Like my way of showing love is through gifts. So I always try to shower Valeria, like whether it's stuffed animals because she loves stuffed animals a lot, or with flowers because she also loved flowers. She loved being given flowers. I would send it to her simply because seeing her happy came naturally to me.

21:08Seeing how excited she got, like a little girl when she received things was more than enough for me. Like I always gave Valeria gifts. I always showered Valeria in gifts. The interviewer asks her, how frequently did you give her presents? I mean, I can't tell you. It was kind of like a regular thing. Only when I felt like giving her the gift, I would give it to her. I mean, I literally almost always gave it to her when I saw her in live so that I could see her reaction when we weren't together, you know, because a lot of the times we were also together. So she says that recently Valeria was having problems with her ex.

21:37So I just wanted to cheer her up, send her food, flowers, stuffed animals. But a lot of netizens are saying it just feels so convenient. Also the fact that Vivian loved to be around Valeria when she's live streaming, but conveniently the day that she passes, she's not there. There are other people who also think it's odd that she sent her a pig and then she ended up dying in the same live stream. It almost feels like when you factor in what netizens believe to be this obsessive jealousy, it feels almost like a humiliation tactic. And the fact that she was watching, it just feels like she wanted to see this happen is what people are speculating.

22:13Now, Vivian says in the later interview, that's just couldn't be further from the truth. That's not, it doesn't make sense. She said she's watching the live stream because quote, I was at home because I was watching her live. I mean, I watched her in the background on my phone and I had her voice in the background just listening to her if she said something that involved me or that I wanted to give an opinion on that's when I would send her a message and send her a direct message on my phone she says I didn't feel like anything strange in that live stream I mean as I told you that I had it in the background like there were times that I concentrated a lot on what I was watching on the phone or sometimes I would do other things and I would stop listening to her I mean I stopped paying attention to what she was saying and then I would reconnect and I was always watching Val's lives because it was just very entertaining like she's very funny so I always watched her lives.

22:57She said she was interested in what present she was going to get. She says, I mean, of course, I was curious to know what they were going to give her because normally the gifts they sent her were always left right away. So if there's flowers, people leave them. If there's other things, they leave them. So it was just intriguing. She says about the moment that her friend passes, quote, so at that moment when that happened with Val, I just, I mean, I even thought that they had like thrown confetti poppers or something at her because I saw her kind of duck and then she went off to one side. Like I didn't really grasp what was happening until I saw that she literally was almost collapsing onto the table.

23:29She said that she had the live stream minimized to a small corner on her phone. So she's doing other things. So when I saw that she kind of ducked, I said, oh, they threw confetti at her. And then I zoomed in to show the full screen. And that's when I saw she was already with her hair covered to the side. So I didn't understand what had happened until I saw that she literally started falling on the table. So logically, I got very worried. I immediately got up. I called her uncles because her uncles weren't at the salon at the time. I don't remember why they weren't there. So I called them. I told them that I think something happened to her.

23:56I mean, that I wasn't very sure because it wasn't very clear. But logically, at the moment, I didn't see it like I did later after watching all the videos properly. At the moment, I didn't see it clearly. So I just said something happened. She said she saw some live stream comment saying Valeria had been shot. Valeria had been shot. And she was screaming at like, you know, telling the uncles like, what do you mean she's been shot? Like, that's when I started freaking out. She's calling the uncles and getting ready. She's out the door and going to the salon. She says by the time she gets there, another one of their friends had been watching the live and rushed over.

24:24We were both in shock. We just hugged each other. I mean, we couldn't believe what was happening. We were so angry because of course they couldn't let us into the salon. I couldn't see Val. I mean, they had put up the tape by this point, but I was just in a moment of shock. I was in denial. I didn't believe something had happened or I was simply completely in shock. Everything was closed off. I mean, they only let immediate family in logically, right? I don't know any other way to express what I was feeling because at that moment, tears would not come to me. I was in shock. I mean, I didn't want to accept it.

24:53I didn't want to accept it. When I was in the Uber, I didn't want to accept it. I was very sad. I was very confused. I just wanted to get there and see her. I mean, I wanted to get there and see how she was because my brain couldn't process that she was no longer there. She says that she doesn't like that people have made her out to be this jealous friend when she's mourning and grieving the loss of her best friend. She says people have concocted these crazy theories in their minds about her being a jealous killer. And she says even about like her trying to look like Valeria, she says, I never tried to look like Valeria.

25:20I always had my own style, my essence. I had always wanted to be blonde since I was little, even at like 15, 16 was the first time that I did try to style and like lighten my hair. But obviously, since I was with my mom, she was the one who paid for it. So I couldn't maintain it. So that's why I dyed my hair black again. I always liked blonde hair, always. I even like how it lights up my face. Like I like how it looks on me. I mean, it's a matter of like, I like how blonde looks on me more than I like how black looks on me. But that also has to do with the fact that I I haven't seen myself recently with black hair because I haven't tried it in a while.

25:52I've always admired Valeria, but it was never a thing of me like wanting to look like her. I've always been very present in who I am and I've never looked at other paths. I wasn't envious of her. I didn't want to look like her. I thought that she and I had very, you know, we were very clear to each other and very pretty in our own ways. And if I use contact lenses or if I became blonder, it was just because I liked it because I always knew what I am and what I like. I love contact lenses. I don't only have blue contact lenses. like brown, green, gray. I mean, I use all of them. It's just that in most photos, unfortunately, I appeared with the blue contact lenses.