2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Alejandra Villanueva, a young man from Colorado, is one of the five killed in the shooting that took place early Monday morning in a nightclub in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
The 18-year-old Hispanic woman was one of hundreds who were celebrating an electronic music party at the Blue Parrot club at the famous Mexican resort in the state of Quintana Roo, on the shores of the Caribbean Sea.
According to different sources, a subject attempted to enter the site around 2:30 am armed with a pistol. Security elements of the club tried to stop their entrance, causing it to start shooting at them and then to shoot inside the premises.
The site was crowded with tourists from various countries, mostly the United States and Canada, and when the chaos broke out they tried to flee, which generated a stampede in which one person was crushed to death.
"She was a hard worker," Villanueva's brother Robert Aaron Martínez told ABC News. “I was always taking care of my mom and my brothers. I was working and paying for college and I was pretty much the only one helping my mother.”
Martínez opened a Gofundme.com account to raise funds to cover the young woman's funeral. "My sister Alejandra Villanueva, just 18 years old, was murdered yesterday at the bpm festival," said the brother. "I ask that you help us bring her [to Colorado] and be able to do her services."
According to CNN en Español, of the five fatal victims of the shooting, four were men and one was a woman. As for nationalities, among them there is a Canadian, an Italian and a Colombian.
A tourist named Tyler Klee, from New Zealand and who was inside the Blue Parrot, told the Denver Post newspaper that "everyone ran, everyone was terrified looking for their friends."
"You couldn't see who the shooter was, but we heard a flurry, it wasn't shooting with a gun … it looked like a submachine gun," William Rogers told CNN en Español about the multiple shots.
In a press conference, the attorney general of Quintana Roo, Miguel Ángel Pech, reported that the incident left several wounded, 15 of whom have already been discharged.
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