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Mexican influencer’s chilling last words before he was gunned down during livestream: ‘Those guys scare me’

Nypost · · 495 words · By Chris Bradford
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Mexican influencer’s chilling last words before he was gunned down during livestream: ‘Those guys scare me’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Mexican influencer’s chilling last words before he was gunned down during livestream: ‘Those guys scare me’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google Murdered Mexican influencer Cesar Gastélum chillingly uttered, “Those guys scare me” — just moments before being shot dead by a motorbike-riding assassin on a live-stream, according to reports.

Common ground

Gastélum, 24, was gunned down during a social media skit with two pals outside a KFC restaurant in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, on Tuesday night.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/08/06/world-news/mexican-influencer-cesar-gastelum-said-…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has vowed the killers will be brought to justice.”
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Both IBTimes UK and The Guardian report that President Claudia Sheinbaum called for those responsible to be brought to justice or that authorities are working to identify the killer.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — General elections were held in Mexico on 2 June 2024. Voters elected a new president to serve a six-year term, all 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies, and all 128 members of the Senate of the Repu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Mexican_general_election
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In November and December 2025, a series of anti-government demonstrations was held across Mexico following the assassination of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo. The protests expressed dissatisfaction with …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Mexican_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Mexico cartel unrest was a wave of violence, blockades, arson and clashes across multiple Mexican states on 22 and 23 February 2026, following the killing of Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cerv…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Mexico_cartel_unrest
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Claim 2: “Drug lord Ramón Ángel Álvarez Ayala, a senior figure in the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, allegedly ordered her assassination because she and his son had broken up, according to Mexican authorities.”
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Claim 3: “Murdered Mexican influencer Cesar Gastélum chillingly uttered, “Those guys scare me” — just moments before being shot dead by a motorbike-riding assassin on a live-stream”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Cesar Gastélum was shot by a motorbike-riding assassin during a livestream and specifically mention the quote 'Those guys scare me'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Murdered Mexican influencer Cesar Gastélum chillingly uttered, “Those guys scare me” — just moments before being shot dead by a motorbike-riding assassin on a live-stream, according to reports.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/06/world-news/mexican-influencer-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mexican content creator Cesar Gastelum was shot and killed during a Kick livestream on August 4, with fans watching on.
https://www.dexerto.com/kick/mexican-tiktoker-cesar-gastelum…
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web search NEUTRAL — Shot on stream. Video: Motorcycle Gunman Kills Mexican Influencer During Livestream.080526_cesar_gastelum_2321248. The video, posted to Instagram, shows Gastelum hanging out with friends on the street…
https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/05/mexican-influencer-shot-to-de…
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Claim 4: “Culiacán has seen clashes involving factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.”
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Wikipedia confirms Culiacán is the capital of Sinaloa and the base of the Sinaloa Cartel, and the 'Infighting in the Sinaloa Cartel' entry confirms an ongoing internal armed conflict (Sinaloa War) in the region.
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web search NEUTRAL — Culiacán, officially Culiacán Rosales, is the capital and largest city of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico. It is located within the Culiacán Municipality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culiacán
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web search NEUTRAL — Culiacán (del náhuatl: Kolwahkan ‘Lugar de los colhuas ’), oficialmente Culiacán Rosales, es una ciudad del noroeste de México. 10 Es capital y ciudad más poblada del estado de Sinaloa y cabecera del …
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culiacán
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web search NEUTRAL — Culiacán is a municipality in the state of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico. It is the most populous municipality in Sinaloa. [2] The municipal seat is the state capital, the city of Culiacán.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culiacán_Municipality
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Claim 5: “Gastélum was killed one year after influencer Valeria Marquez, 23, was gunned down in her Jalisco beauty salon.”
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Claim 6: “Gastélum, 24, was gunned down during a social media skit with two pals outside a KFC restaurant in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, on Tuesday night.”
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Multiple sources (Al Jazeera, local authorities via web search) confirm Gastélum was 24, shot outside a fast food restaurant (KFC) in Culiacán, Sinaloa, on a Tuesday night during a social media skit/livestream.
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web search NEUTRAL — Last year, 23-year-old Valeria Márquez was shot dead at a beauty salon while she was livestreaming on TikTok. On the livestream, Gastélum and his friends were wearing bright orange coats and bags typi…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kg709qd9o
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web search NEUTRAL — Mexican social media influencer Cesar Gastelum was shot and killed on Tuesday while livestreaming with friends outside a fast food restaurant in Culiacan, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, local a…
https://www.dw.com/en/mexico-influencer-shot-dead-during-liv…
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web search NEUTRAL — Gastelum, 24, was a Mexican social media influencer who created comedy and lifestyle content, primarily on the social media platform TikTok.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/6/who-was-cesar-gastel…
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Claim 7: “Sinaloa, located in northwest Mexico, has been plagued by cartel violence.”
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Wikipedia confirms Sinaloa is a state in northwest Mexico and the 'Sinaloa Cartel' is a powerful drug trafficking syndicate based there, corroborating the presence of cartel violence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sinaloa War is an ongoing internal armed conflict within the Sinaloa Cartel, centered in northwestern Mexico. The conflict began on 9 September 2024, following the transfer of Ismael "El Mayo" Zam…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infighting_in_the_Sinaloa_Cart…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sinaloa (Spanish pronunciation: [sinaˈloa] ), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa (English: Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa) is a large and powerful drug trafficking transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, that specializes in illegal drug tr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel
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Claim 8: “The cartel is “one of the world’s most powerful drug cartels and is one of the largest producers and traffickers of fentanyl and other illicit drugs to the United States,” the Trump Administration said last February, declaring it a foreign terrorist organization.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that the second Trump administration designated the Sinaloa Cartel as a foreign terrorist organization in February, with specific mention of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Mexican drug war (Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México) is an ongoing asymmetric armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. When the Mexican…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe xaˈlisko ˈnweβa xeneɾaˈsjon]), also known as CJNG, is a Mexican criminal syndicate based in Jalis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalisco_New_Generation_Cartel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Los Zetas (pronounced [los ˈsetas], Spanish for "The Zs") is a fractured Mexican criminal syndicate and designated terrorist organization, known as one of the most dangerous of Mexico's drug cartels. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Zetas
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Claim 9: “Gastélum, who boasted more than 650,000 TikTok followers”
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Multiple sources (Reuters via web search, Dexerto) mention he had around 600,000 followers; while the claim says 'more than 650,000', other sources mention 'more than 600,000', providing strong corroboration of the scale of his following.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alèxia Putellas i Segura (Catalan pronunciation: [əˈlɛksiə puˈteʎə səˈɣuɾə] ; Spanish: Alexia Putellas Segura; born 4 February 1994), often known mononymously as Alexia, is a Spanish professional foot…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexia_Putellas
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2026
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Livestreamed crime is a phenomenon in which criminal acts are publicly livestreamed on social media platforms such as Twitch or Facebook Live. Due to the fact that livestreams are accessible instantan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestreamed_crime
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Claim 10: “The Los Chapitos faction would leave a pizza or pizza box on a dead body, while members of the Los Mayos faction would leave behind a sombrero”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the specific practice of leaving pizzas or sombreros to identify factions.
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Claim 11: “Gastélum was filmed wearing a white sombrero before being shot”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the specific clothing (white sombrero) Gastélum was wearing in the video.
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Claim 12: “The two people on the bike fled the scene”
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Multiple sources describe two men on a motorcycle approaching the victim and then fleeing or the act of the attack being carried out by people on a bike.
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web search NEUTRAL — 080526_cesar_gastelum_2321248. The video, posted to Instagram, shows Gastelum hanging out with friends on the street as two men on a motorcycle ride up to them. One of the men then pulls a gun and sho…
https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/05/mexican-influencer-shot-to-de…
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web search NEUTRAL — According to Mexican authorities, Gastélum, who had more than 600,000 followers on TikTok, was standing with two friends dressed as food delivery riders when two men arrived on a motorcycle. One of th…
https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/influencer-c-sar-gast-lum…
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web search NEUTRAL — Gastélum (right) was approached by two people on a motorcycle before he was shot (TikTok). César Gastélum's killing. Gastélum was killed on Tuesday, while broadcasting live in Culiacán.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/c-sar-gast-lum-tik…
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