Mexican singer Sergio “El Shaka” Vega denies murder, then gets murdered

A popular Mexican singer publicly denied rumors of his murder, only to be murdered hours later in Sinaloa.

Sergio Vega, known as “El Shaka,” was driving his red Cadillac Saturday night when a truck began pursuing the vehicle. It pulled up alongside Vega’s car, and the singer was shot, causing him to crash the vehicle. Gunmen then approached the injured Vega and shot him in the chest and head. Oddly, just hours before, Vega had denied internet gossip that he’d been killed:

Just hours before he was shot Mr Vega was interviewed for an article on entertainment website La Oreja, in which he confirmed he was still alive. “It’s happened to me for years now, someone tells a radio station or a newspaper I’ve been killed, or suffered an accident,” Mr Vega told the website. “And then I have to call my dear mum, who has heart trouble, to reassure her,” he explained.

Vega, 40, was known for singing “narcocorridors”- ballads centering around the drug trade in Mexico. Vega was the seventh artist known in that genre to have been killed in Mexico over the past three years.

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