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TIL in 2017, a 17-year-old YouTube star insulted a notorious Mexican drug lord. Few days later, four men armed with “long weapons” stormed into a bar and opened fire at a table where the Youtuber was sitting and executed the teen, riddling him with 15 bullets.

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