Denver woman among 5 killed in shooting outside Mexican nightclub

DENVER – A Denver woman is among five people who died during a shooting at a Caribbean resort town, her brother said Tuesday.

Robert Aaron Martinez told KMGH-TV that his sister, Alejandra Villanueva Ibarra, 18, died while attending an electronic music festival in Playa del Carmen, Mexico early Monday morning. The Denver Post reported that Martinez has set up a GoFundMe page for her.

“She was very lovable. Very artistic. She loved art,” Martinez told the television station.

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Martinez said his sister was excited to attend the festival, which brings people from across the world to the beach resort on the Yucatan Peninsula.

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“The night before she left she was at my house, and we were having dinner and we were talking about how she was going to come back and she was going to tell me about her trip and everything she did over there,” he said. “I didn’t know it was going to be the last time I would see her.”

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He added that Villanueva was in college and working to provide for her ill mother and younger siblings.

“We’re just trying to figure out how we’re going to bring my sister back,” he said. “We just want to say the last goodbye and see her for the last time.”

Mexican authorities said Tuesday they are looking into whether extortion, street-level drug sales or a murder plot was the motive behind the shooting. Fifteen people were injured.