The former manager of Venezuelan rapper Canserbero has revealed that she murdered the hip hop star in a video confession.
The 2015 death of Canserbero, who Rolling Stone magazine had labelled best rapper in Spanish, had originally been ruled a suicide.
Venezuelan Attorney-General Tarek William Saab yesterday released video statements recorded on December 19 by ex-manager Natalia Améstica and her brother Guillermo, in which they recalled the events on the night of the rapper’s death.
Améstica said she had drugged the musician and stabbed him. With her brother’s assistance, she then chucked the body from a 10th-story window, she said in a video statement released by Venezuela’s attorney-general, BBC News reports.
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Améstica claims that she had become angered during the musician’s Chile tour, when his friend and producer, Carlos Molnar, had informed her that she would not gain a share of the profits from the tour, which she said she had organised, the publication reports.
Venezuelan Attorney-General Tarek William Saab yesterday released video statements recorded on December 19 by ex-manager Natalia Améstica (pictured) and her brother Guillermo
Canserbero’s friends and family had continued to express doubt over the official version of events and the case was reopened in November after pressure from them
She was also told she would not be able to get the money back for plane tickets she had purchased.
Améstica and Carlos Molnar, 35, were a couple and had reportedly been romantically involved for more than a decade.
She also says that she found out on the tour that the rapper didn’t want her as a manager anymore.
‘This hurt me a lot and left me with a lot of internal pain,’ she says, according to BBC News.
Canserbero’s friends and family had continued to express doubt over the official version of events and the case was reopened in November after pressure from them.
Améstica recounted how on the night of January 19, 2015, Canserbero and Molnar visited her apartment in the city of Maracay in Venezuela, the publication reports.
‘The kids had left to stay with their grandmother and the chance arose to make them a tea,’ she said, according to the report.
Améstica said she spiked the drink with a potent tranquiliser.
When her drugged boyfriend Molnar entered the kitchen, where she was preparing a meal, she stabbed him in the neck, the arm and in the back, according to the report.
‘Tyrone saw me and was very worried, but he was also sleepy. I explained that it was an attack of rage, that I hadn’t been able to control myself,’ she said, according to BBC News.
‘He [Canserbero] collapsed on the sofa asleep and I stabbed him twice in the side. In desperation, I then called my brother Guillermo to help me resolve the situation.’
Améstica says that her brother showed up with three officers from Sebin, Venezuela’s intelligence agency.
‘They finished arranging the scene in a way to make it look like a murder-suicide, meaning that they stabbed Carlos a few more times, my brother Guillermo stabbed him four times. The rest, the Sebin officials did,’ she said, according to the report.
The ex-manager describes how her brother beat Tyrone’s face to make it look like he was involved in a fight.
‘Then we were told how to throw him out of the window to complete the murder-suicide scene,’ she said, according to the report.
Guillermo backs up her account of the evening’s events in a video statement which has also been released by the attorney-general’s office.
The attorney general’s office has issued arrest warrants for several police officers who were at the scene, accusing them of taking money from the siblings to cover up the crime.
Warrants were also issued for a forensic pathologist and two investigators with the prosecutor’s office who were involved in the investigation.
‘Canserbero can rest in peace,’ said Saab, who compared the crime to the murder of American rapper Tupac Shakur in the United States in 1996 at the age of 25.