A Colombian rapper who went lacking whereas on tour in Mexico has been discovered lifeless and recognized by his household, Mexican prosecutors mentioned Monday.
Rapper Bayron Sanchez, who used the stage identify B King, disappeared with Colombian DJ colleague Jorge Herrera on September 16 as they left a fitness center in an unique neighborhood of Mexico Metropolis, their supervisor advised Colombian radio.
Mexico Metropolis prosecutors mentioned that one other physique discovered on September 17 introduced “similarities” with that of Herrera, who carried out beneath the identify Regio Clown. His physique had but to be formally recognized.
“They told me they were going to have lunch with two people, but didn’t return any messages” thereafter, the musicians’ supervisor, Juan Camilo Gallego, advised Colombia’s Blu Radio.
He mentioned he initially suspected that that they had been kidnapped, however obtained no ransom demand and reported them lacking to the authorities.
Bayron Sanchez, referred to as B-King, poses on this undated image from social media obtained by Reuters on September 22, 2025.
BKINGOFICIAL VIA INSTAGRAM through Reuters
The final video posted to B King’s Instagram on September 15 reveals him in a dressing room preparing for a live performance in Mexico.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned earlier the lads’s disappearance was beneath investigation.
Reacting to experiences of the 2 males’s deaths Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro wasted no time in claiming the pair had been “murdered.”
“They murdered our youth in the United States of Mexico,” Petro, a fierce critic of the U.S.-led battle on medication, wrote on X, with out naming the victims.
“More young people murdered by an anti-drug policy that is not an anti-drug trafficking policy,” he wrote.
Final week, the Trump administration added Colombia to an inventory of countries failing to cooperate within the drug battle for the primary time in nearly 30 years.
Relations and buddies of B King had posted photographs of the singer on social media with requests for assist in discovering him.
Petro had on Sunday requested for Sheinbaum’s assist in discovering the pair and speculated that their disappearance was linked to “multinational mafias.”
Greater than 120,000 individuals are listed as lacking in Mexico, a rustic affected by drug cartel violence.
Musicians have been focused by violence in Mexico in current months. In August, Ernesto Barajas, a singer with the favored group Enigma Norteno, was gunned down within the metropolis of Zapopan in Jalisco state.
In Might, the our bodies of 5 musicians from the band Grupo Fugitivo had been discovered within the northern metropolis of Reynosa alongside the Texas border. Prosecutors mentioned a number of individuals arrested within the case had been believed to be a part of a faction of the Gulf Cartel.
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