Venezuelan beauty queen Monica Spear has reportedly been shot dead on Monday, January 6, 2014.
The 29-year-old and her ex-husband,
Thomas Henry Berry were shot by unidentified men suspected to be armed
robbers while driving in Venezuela’s Carabobo along with her
five-year-old daughter. Their car had broken down on the country road.
Their daughter survived the shooting, authorities said, despite being shot in the leg.
‘It is presumed that the motive was robbery’, Venezuelan Justice Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres said told CNN. ‘We are still investigating. There are five people detained who are being interrogated’.
Spear was Miss Venezuela in 2004 and represented her country in the Miss Universe pageant the next year.
One person is killed roughly every 21
minutes in Venezuela. And there were 24,700 violent deaths last year in
the oil-rich country of roughly 30 million people, according to the
non-profit Venezuelan Violence Observatory.
Via: Thenet
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