A Mexican radio host popular with the Hispanic community in Utah was shot to death on Sunday, allegedly by her ex-partner, who is missing.
Gabriela Sifuentes Castilla, 38, better known by her artistic pseudonym Gaby Ramos, was one of the most notorious voices on La Más Picosita, a local Salt Lake City radio station.
At dawn on Sunday, her 34-year-old ex-partner Manuel Omar Burciaga-Perea went to the house that Ramos shared with his sister Rocío Sifuentes and her husband in Taylorsville, a Salt Lake City municipality, according to the woman.
The man ended up leaving, but soon after he returned and fired up to seven times.
Three bullets hit Gaby
, who died practically on the spot, always according to Sifuentes' account.
["I wanted to be the voice of those who don't have it," says the mother of the young Latina murdered in Chicago]
"When the ambulance arrived, he had already stopped breathing," Sifuentes explained to the press.
The woman described the ex-boyfriend as "a very violent person, very jealous, possessive."
"
I think he did it well thought out,
" added Sifuentes.
Authorities are looking for Burciaga-Perea, who would be traveling in a gray 2000 Chevrolet pickup with Utah registration U405MN.
The police consider him armed and dangerous.
Ramos' family fears that the man has fled to the Mexican state of Chihuahua, where he is from.
"
Let him surrender
. If he is listening to us, let him surrender", asked Rocío Sifuentes.
In search of a dream
Ramos, a graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, came to the United States three years ago in search of
a better future for her 10-year-old daughter
.
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As she herself told on social networks, in the beginning she worked in a restaurant where she learned to cook tortillas.
The Hispanic community and listeners to his radio station organized a fundraiser to help the family.