MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities on Wednesday were investigating possible links to organized crime in the shooting death of a well-known influencer who was gunned down while livestreaming in front of a fast-food outlet in the northwestern city of Culiacán, capital of violence-wracked Sinaloa state.

César Gastelum, 25, who was shot dead late Tuesday - apparently targeted by assassins on a motorcycle - had hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and other platforms.

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He was the latest in a series of internet personalities targeted in Mexico, dramatizing the potential dangers of social media presence and commentary.

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Police were looking into a possible connection to "a faction of a criminal group," Mexico's Security Cabinet said Wednesday in a statement, without elaborating.

Competing factions of the notorious Sinaloa cartel have been engaged in a bloody, almost two-year civil war that has left thousands dead and upended life in Culiacán and........

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