Colombian influencer Estefanía Restrepo Valencia reportedly died after an alleged highway robbery attack.
According to a report by People, published on Tuesday, October 21, and several local Spanish reports published in the days prior, Valencia died from multiple stab wounds on Friday, October 17. She was 26 years old.
Valencia, who was also known as “La Traviesta” online, was reportedly admitted to the emergency room at Medellín, Colombia’s Clinica Las Vegas by her ex-boyfriend with “what appeared to be several knife wounds on her arm and neck,” per People.
The local reports, published by El Columbiano and El Tiempo among other Spanish news outlets, stated that she died shortly after being admitted to hospital.
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Us Weekly has reached out to local authorities, the Metropolitan Police of the Aburrá Valley, for comment.
El Columbiano reported on Saturday, October 18, that Valencia was stabbed “four times with a knife” after the content creator’s ex-boyfriend claimed that the attack “occurred during a theft case on the Caldas bypass” in Colombia.
The outlet stated that the former boyfriend, whose name has not been publicly revealed, “had met up with” Valencia “in the afternoon … to try to revive the relationship that had lasted four years and ended a week earlier due to infidelity.”
According to the outlet, the ex claimed a “group of men on a motorcycle apparently intercepted them in an attempt to steal their belongings.” The report continued, “The alleged thief attacked the woman on her left shoulder, neck, and finger, leaving her seriously injured.”
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Security cameras were reportedly found “at the scene where the driver claimed the incident occurred, and are being analyzed to determine how the murder occurred,” per the outlet.
People also reported that the “Metropolitan Police of the Aburrá Valley reportedly opened an investigation, conducting an interview with Valencia’s partner and inspecting her body.”
Valencia had built up an online following over the past four years, boasting more than 216,000 followers on Facebook and more than 27,000 followers on TikTok. According to El Columbiano, she “made humorous and prank videos, some of them featuring the man who took her” to hospital.
The Sun reported on Monday, October 20, that Valencia’s “family have disputed” the ex-boyfriend’s “version of events.”
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Valencia’s reported death is the second highway fatality allegedly suffered by an influencer in around one month. On September 26, Luanna Araújo and her fiancé Korbinian Andreas Dengler were reportedly killed on the influencer’s birthday in a three-way collision on a Brazilian highway, per Brazilian news organization g1.
The outlet reported at the time that the pair were in a car with a friend, Herbson Nunes Negrão, when their vehicle hit two trucks at around 1:20 a.m that morning.
All three passengers in the vehicle were reportedly killed and Araújo was 29 years old when she died.
Prior to Araújo’s death, her last Instagram post, shared on September 7, demonstrated her flair for fashion. Sharing a mirror selfie at the time, dressed in a white skirt and black shirt paired with gold jewelry and a black bag, she wrote at the time, “I love it! 🖤🤍,” as translated in English.
