In the middle of a children’s and family event organized in the city of Manta, in Ecuador, a hitman incident was recorded that left two people dead this weekend. The crime caused consternation and has the country’s authorities on alert for the security of the main cities.
Armed criminals entered the venue where a circus event would take place last Sunday, June 2, and attacked the lives of a woman and a man, who were receiving the attendees.
The shots caused panic and the children ran away in search of their parents. The bodies of Cristian Nieto and his wife Nicole Burgos.
Local authorities went to western Ecuador to attend to what was initially reported as a shooting. Arriving, They found several people with gunshot wounds, including two of the event organizers and a journalist.
Who are the murdered influencers?
Cristhian Nieto and his wife Nicole Burgos
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The married couple was known in the region for their influencer activity with more than 388 thousand followers on their social networks. Cristhian Nieto used to make publications in which she showed the support he provided to homeless people and drug users, whom he helped in their rehabilitation through his foundation ‘Cristhian Nieto Rescata’.
Grandson, furthermore, He had political performance, since he was an alternate legislator (replacement) by the Citizen Revolution movement.
”Our fellow assemblyman Cristhian Nieto and his wife Nicole Burgos were murdered while they were in a circus in Manta. What pain, indignation, desolation!
Our feeling of regret for their little girls who are left orphaned. Strength in these difficult times for your family, colleagues and friends. The country is bleeding,” fellow assembly member Pamela Aguirre lamented in X.
Cristhian Nieto and his wife Nicole Burgos
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For her part, Nicole dedicated herself solely to her social networks, through which she sold makeup products.
The couple had two children, a girl and a boy who are minors. It is not yet known which family member they will remain in custody of.
According to information spread on social networks, journalist Josué Suárez was also injured when he was broadcasting the entrance of people to the circus live on the internet.
This crime of people from political and public life in Ecuador has been repeated on several occasions in recent years, so the crime of Nieto and his wife once again raised alarm bells about the situation of violence that the country is experiencing.
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