This is the horrific moment an Ecuadorian beauty queen was shot by hitmen in a restaurant just months after being ‘discussed by drug traffickers in a secret chat’.
Shocking CCTV footage shows two armed men storming into the diner in Quevedo, Ecuador, on Sunday as Landy Párraga Goyburo, 23, and another man stood at a table.
As the pair chat casually, the woman can be seen looking at the door window as her attacker sneaks into the restaurant without her noticing.
The former Miss Ecuador contestant then turns to the man she had been talking to before the gunmen begin charging towards them with their weapons in hand.
The first masked attacker quickly opens fire, shooting both Párraga and the man, before firing another round of bullets at the woman as she lies on the ground.
Former Miss Ecuador contestant Landy Párraga Goyburo was shot dead in a restaurant on Sunday
Horror CCTV footage captured the moment Párraga, 23, was talking to a man in a diner moments before her attackers entered
Masked attackers, dressed in black, storm into the restaurant and open fire before fleeing, leaving Párraga dead on the ground in a pool of blood
The second attacker remains on guard at the restaurant door.
Both armed attackers then fled the scene, storming out the door and onto the street after committing their murder in broad daylight.
The former model is seen lying motionless on the ground in a pool of her own blood, with a bullet mark visible on her right thigh.
Police are currently investigating the incident and are trying to determine the motive and identify the attackers responsible.
Párraga was shot after being cryptically discussed by a drug trafficker before he was murdered in prison
Párraga was a former Miss Ecuador contestant and represented Los Ríos Province in 2022.
She had over a million followers on her social media accounts.
According to El Comercio, at the age of 23, Párraga owned a household goods importer and had her own sportswear line.
On her social networks she shared the luxurious life she led, between trips around the world and meals in luxurious places.
But there was a darker truth behind the glamorous lifestyle portrayed on social media.
In December 2023, her name was mentioned in a chat made public by the Public Prosecution Service as part of a major organized crime case it was investigating.
One of the 52 people charged in the case is Helive Angulo, nicknamed ‘Estimado’.
In the chat, Angulo told drug trafficker Leandro Norero, whose assets he managed, that the police had asked him about Párraga.
Norero wrote cryptically, “If my wife finds out anything about her, I’m fucked.
‘My friend, her name cannot appear anywhere. Otherwise my world will collapse.’
Norero was murdered in prison in 2022, six months after his incarceration.
Money transfers to Párraga’s bank account are being investigated by the Attorney General’s office.
The office never prosecuted Párraga and she has never commented publicly on the case.