A webcam model believed to be dating a gangbanger was ambushed and killed alongside her innocent best friend — with a manhunt underway for the masked motorcycle assassins.
Karen Valentina Vega Peralta and Nicol Cristina Amaya Díaz, both 20, were shot at around 2:40 a.m. Sunday in Girón, northern Colombia while heading home from a night out with pals, according to El Tiempo.
Peralta was in a relationship with a member of the “Los del Sur” (Those from the South) drug trafficking crime group, police sources told El Tiempo.
Karen Valentina Vega Peralta was believed to be dating a gangbanger when she was killed. JamPressShe was shot in the shoulder and chest, with her body left on the road.
“It has been established that there was a romantic relationship with a man who belongs to a criminal organization,” Bucaramanga Metropolitan Police commander William Quintero confirmed, without identifying the gangbanger.
Nicol Cristina Amaya Díaz, 20, was caught in the crossfire. JamPressPeralta — who also worked as a nursing auxiliary — is thought to have been the chief target, with Diaz caught in the crossfire.
Diaz, a student with no criminal history, was rushed to a local hospital with bullet wounds but could not be saved.
Cops believe the motorcycle-riding killers followed the women from their night out and then ambushed them.
They are still hunting the killers, who fled on a blue and white Suzuki DR 150.

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