Authorities are calling the savage killing of a well-known TikTok influencer with a flair for design a “femicide,” or a hate crime committed against her because she was a woman.
Karla Pardini, a Mexican woman in her twenties, was shot and killed close to her home after receiving an ominous late-night phone call, according to the New York Post.
Authorities claim that Pardini was killed on September 20 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, after receiving a call from someone telling her to step outside at about 10:30 p.m. Sara Bruna Quionez, a prosecutor in Sinaloa, claims that she left her house and never came back, based on information they learned from Pardini’s mother.
Due to investigators discovering Pardini’s “bullet-riddled” body the next day, close to her home, they now suspect that she was “ambushed and shot numerous times,” according to the NYP article.
On TikTok, Pardini has 90,000 followers and 1.5 million people watched her most recent video.
“When they express their dislike for me. I want you to like me less, in short,” Pardini remarked in the video.
Multiple armed individuals were reportedly observed “prowling the neighbourhood previous to the attack,” according to eyewitnesses, though no one has yet been arrested in connection with the murder.
Police stated that they are conducting the investigation covertly in order to avoid identifying a potential suspect and that they believe the victim was killed as a result of a femicide because she was “exposed and defenceless at the time the incident occurred.”
