During the night of last Sunday, June 2, 2024, the influencer couple Cristhian Nieto and Nicole Burgos were shot dead while entering a circus performance in the coastal city of Manta, in western Ecuador.
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One more person, identified as Steven Leandro Mendoza Reyes, 24, He also died, while journalist Josué Suárez was injured.
Cristhian Nieto, known as Cristhian Rescues on social networkswas a very followed influencer in Ecuador and Latin America.
In addition to dedicating himself to social work, managed about 36 influencers and he was the director of the company Trix-Network Producciones, which produces videos, as well as the Cristhian Nieto Rescata Foundation, which helps people with addictions.
Grandson too He was an alternate (replacement) legislator for the Citizen Revolution movement. In fact, he had attended the circus show, in which he was murdered, for being one of its organizers, as a tribute to Children’s Day, which is celebrated on June 1, according to several digital portals.
On his Instagram page he has 382,000 followers and on the main Facebook page, 5.8 million.
A large part of Cristhian Rescata’s social media publications reveal people in difficult social and economic conditions, many of them living on the streets, whom I helped to change their lifestyle.
The influencer was the husband of Nicole Burgos, with whom he had two children: A boy and a girl.
Nicole Burgos was also well known for her digital content and identified herself as I’m Pipo. She recorded videos and spread them on social networks.
Burgos has 453,000 followers on his Facebook account and 18,800 on his Instagram account (nicolleon4766).
The live broadcast on the Soy Pipo account on TikTok captured the moment of the attack and how a person shouted “they killed Pipo, they killed us Pipo” upon discovering the woman’s body on the ground.
THEY JUST KILLED THE INFLUENCER CRISTHIAN NIETO AND HIS WIFE
“Call an ambulance. They killed Pipo. An ambulance, please,” are the cries in a video of the broadcast of the armed attack in Manta.
The murdered people are the influencer Cristhian Nieto, who also… pic.twitter.com/vAy4vixPUX
— Red Ecuador (@Red_Ecuador_) June 3, 2024
Nicole on Instagram had several videos in which recommended and sold beauty products.
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Source: https://www.noticiascaracol.com/mundo/quienes-eran-cristhian-nieto-y-nicole-burgos-pareja-de-influenciadores-asesinada-rg10
