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Thursday, February 24, 2022

Culiacán, Sinaloa: 15-Year-Old Girl Kills Herself With An Uzi Trying To Record A TikTok Video

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Criminologist shows a "Uzi" submachine gun used by local drug traffickers in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico in 2008

A 15-year-old girl in the Mexican state of Sinaloa was killed when she tried to film herself posing with a 9mm Uzi submachine gun for a TikTok video.

The accident emphasizes the increasing attraction of the narco lifestyle to young people in the state, which is home to the legendary drug cartel of the same name.

Yazmín Esmeralda was visiting her grandmother in the small town of Guasave, not far from Sinaloa’s west coast, with her mother and younger brother last month when the incident happened, according to press reports. 

She found the weapon at the bottom of a bedroom closet, and asked her brother to film her holding the gun so she could upload it onto TikTok, according to interviews her family gave to the local press, as well as the state prosecutor’s office. 

But the gun went off by accident, killing her instantly. Yazmin’s mother was awakened by the sound of the shots, according to an interview with her in the local media. 

It’s not clear how the automatic weapon came to be in the house, Sara Bruna Quiñonez Estrada, Sinaloa’s state prosecutor, told VICE World News. Mexico’s army stopped using 9mm Uzis after it became clear that the safety lock was difficult to use and that the weapon had the tendency to go off accidentally, she said.

Plus, it’s extremely hard for civilians to own weapons legally in Mexico. Permits are expensive and take years to obtain, and there is only one official gun shop in the country. But Mexico is awash with illegal weapons, thousands of which are bought in U.S. gun shops and then trafficked south illegally across the border, mostly to arm Mexico’s cartels.

“The fact that there were weapons in the house, that weren’t controlled, is the responsibility of the adults who knew there were children in the house,” said Quiñonez Estrada.

Sinaloa is the home of the cartel once headed by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is now serving life in a maximum security prison in Colorado in the U.S. A humble farmer from the municipality of Badiraguato in Sinaloa, Guzmán grew the cartel into one of the most successful criminal organizations in the world. He was seen as a benefactor to poppy and marijuana farmers in the Sinaloa’s mountains.

“That she chose to record a clip [in that way] shows that our youth is immersed in that culture,” said Quiñonez Estrada. “It’s what they hear about at all hours.”

Despite the incarceration of El Chapo and so many of his contemporaries, those in the drug trade are still respected by many. 

“There are sectors [of society] that admire drug traffickers,” said María Teresa Guerra Ochoa, head of the state’s women’s ministry. “Many of them come from poverty and so they’re seen as symbols of success.”

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29 comments:

  1. Sol thanks for holding back the video from viewing, I sure don't want to see a 15 year old kill getting killed. Furthermore, common sense 101, unload the weapon when storing, making sure none is in the chamber, separate the magazines from the weapon.

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    1. Dont click on the video if u dont want to see it that simple

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    2. Here comes Obrador suing the Uzi gun manufacturer!

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    3. @1137- what a corny-assed post...

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    1. Dude you ain't funny get a damn life

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    2. He sure ain't damn idiot repeats same thing

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    3. ELCommadanteJuanRambo Lives Matter!

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    4. He Doesn't have a life. We all know it.
      He also has no woman,brains,car,clean clothes,white teeth,fresh breath,job,home,money,health insurance,talent,father he knows of,friends,soap,hairline,kids, prospects of a girl friend or wife nor does he have anything handsome about him so he is 😡 Angry for life.

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  3. Most people from SINALOA have guns in their home because of the high cartel activity either some one is working for The Sinaloa Mercenaries cartel or they have it for protection since police ain't much of a help there either way hope the family can find peace is hard to lose a child
    📌Ukraine 🇷🇺 🙏

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    1. Hope All is well with the Ukrainian people out there and much love from south texas!

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    2. Catalina. Ppl just like guns also. Just because guns are ilegal doesnt mean ppl dont like them. There are plently pf regular mexican citizens all over mexico that have family from USA bring them firearms just to have or be able to shoot when they visit their ranches or that live on ranches or during new years they shoot into the sky for fun
      Guns are all Over Mxico and not eberyone that owns firearms does illegal stuff
      But yeah obviously some ppl do buy guns on the balck market in Mexico or have fmaily buy th in Us as mentioned for protection aginst OC or they are sicarios themselves but theres alot of nromal ppl who just like guns

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    3. What are you going to do when Russia takes over?

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    4. Pela Rats
      Putin is busy invading Ukraine.

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    5. Fuck russia and fuck mexico too.

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  4. I wonder if the poor girl didn't realize the muzzle would climb and she wound up shooting herself in the forehead. This has happened before to a 9 year old boy wielding the same weapon. https://www.masslive.com/news/2008/10/westfield_police_release_name.html

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    1. How tragic young girl died playing with a real gun.

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  5. God Bless Mommy Russia 👊🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺👊

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    1. This has nothing to do with the 15 year old girl.

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  6. Tik Tok is a Communist China controlled application used for propaganda and data collection. It is a cancer for today's youth and should be shut down.

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    1. Look you knockle head I use Tic Toc, I am big balls and truther.
      Millions of us use it.

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    2. Hi little Nuts Flame Thurther.

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    3. Big Nuts is going trans so now has little nuts.

      So nasty but it is free country

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    4. That little nuts truther is a dork, good he is not here today to harass.

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  7. The next article will be kid finds a grenade, pulls the pin, but does not realize he was supposed to throw it quickly. Someone has to pick up the pieces.

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  8. This is how nature gets rid of the stupid.

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