Famous Mexican youtuber found dead after provoking drug dealer

The young Mexican youtuber Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales, better known by the channel El Pirata de Culiacán, was found dead in the city of Culiacán, Mexico, after posting a video in which he was teasing a well-known Mexican drug dealer. Rosales died from at least 15 gunshots, local authorities say.

A resident of the state of Sinaloa, one of the most violent in all of Mexico, the 17-year-old boy gained notoriety by posting videos featuring whiskey, tequila and other alcoholic beverages. Although the minimum drinking age in the United States is 18, the young Mexican Internet star didn't care about that and gathered over 1 million likes on his Facebook page and over 300, 000 Instagram followers.

Although it has only 4, 000 subscribers, your YouTube channel has over 750, 000 views, giving you an idea of ​​the reach of your posts. In one of them, however, Rosales thought it would be a good idea to record a video in which he "stabbed" Nemesio Ocegera Cervantes, better known as "El Mencho", one of Mexico's leading traffickers and considered the leader of the Jalisco cartel known as New generation.

According to the website El País, the young man would still have said "El Mencho suck my p **", which probably contributed to the wrath of the drug dealer. Last Monday (19) the bill came in an absolutely tragic way: a party where Rosales drank with friends was overrun by gunmen, who fired at youtuber at least 15 times.

Local police are investigating the case and still do not confirm that the murder occurred as a result of the provocations made by youtuber, but she works with this line of investigation, says El País. Mexico for defending freedom of expression, underscoring the intense level of narcoviolence in the country.

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