Just a few days after Mexican authorities brought to trial one of the individuals involved in the murder of influencer Valeria Márquez in May 2025, the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that at least two or three other people may have participated in the scheme to kill the popular influencer.

The case was highly popular last year, when Márquez, a 23-year-old influencer, was killed on May 13 while livestreaming on TikTok from her beauty salon in Zapopan, Jalisco.

According to reports, hours before her death, Márquez posted a story on social media showing off an expensive gift she had received from an unidentified person. Later that day, a man posing as a delivery driver entered the salon, confirmed her identity and then opened fire. Márquez was struck in the chest and head and died at the scene.

That man was identified as Iván Martín “N,” who was ordered to remain in pretrial detention for one year and given a three-month deadline for the investigation to be completed. According to the prosecutor’s office, his alleged involvement is tied to one of two vehicles used in the crime against Márquez: a motorcycle and a white sedan used to help the suspects flee the scene.

Days after the murder, Jalisco Gov. Pablo Lemus Navarro told reporters that surveillance cameras captured the moment the alleged suspects fled the scene in two separate vehicles following the killing.

“That’s where we got the evidence showing us where they went after the murder. Once they killed her, the two suspects took different routes in two different vehicles—one motorcycle and one white sedan,” Lemus said last year.

Iván Martín “N” was arrested Aug. 1, just days after authorities arrested Ramón Ángel Álvarez Ayala, also known as “R1,” identified by officials as the leader of “Los Rs,” a faction of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion and arms trafficking in the states of Jalisco and Michoacán.

According to Mexico’s top security official, Omar García Harfuch, Márquez’s killing was allegedly ordered by Álvarez Ayala after his son, Francisco Álvarez Solorio, asked him to do so because he had been romantically involved with the influencer and had allegedly threatened her on multiple occasions, according to reports by Infobae México.

“R1’s son had a romantic relationship with Valeria. He had already threatened her several times, and everything indicates that the son asked his father, R1, to commit the femicide,” García Harfuch said.

Álvarez Solorio remains at large as the alleged instigator of the crime. The Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office continues to investigate in an effort to locate him, and García Harfuch said the arrest of Iván Martín “N” provided evidence that helped authorities advance that search.

A detail from the days following Márquez’s murder has also taken on new significance. On May 19, six days after the killing, a suspicious bouquet of flowers was left at the doorstep of Márquez’s salon.

The bouquet, wrapped in paper with the word “Sorry” written on it, was placed next to candles and other floral arrangements left by fans. The gesture now appears to support the possibility that the bouquet was left by Márquez’s former lover, Álvarez Solorio, who is now wanted by authorities as the alleged instigator of her killing.