Loopy information popping out of New York State because it’s being reported that Tekashi 6ix9ine’s rumored girlfriend, Ariela Mejia-Polanco, was shot and killed over the weekend.
In line with TMZ, the 33-year-old mannequin/influencer was discovered shot lifeless on the motive force’s aspect of her automobile this previous Sunday (Aug. 17) on the eastbound Cross County Parkway in New York at roughly 8 a.m. Rumors of her loss of life started circulating quickly after Tekashi 6ix9ine started posting footage of the mannequin often called Ariela “La Langosta” (Spanish phrase for Lobster), however information of her passing had but to be confirmed.
Now that it’s change into incontrovertible fact that Mejia-Polanco was murdered, police are investigating the matter with questions arising as to who may’ve wished to hurt the younger girl and why. Authorities say she “was seemingly focused for violence and her loss of life was not a random act.”
Tekashi for one appears to have taken the information the toughest.
Per TMZ:
The rapper posted a sequence of tributes to his Instagram Story Monday, remembering the Dominican vogue and modeling influencer, who had greater than 550,000 followers on Instagram. He shared a number of clips of the pair spending time collectively and honored her as a “large girl” and likened her to his sister.
Ariela — whose actual identify is Ariela Mejia-Polanco — was a dancer featured within the rapper’s music video for his 2023 track “Wapae.”
Whereas it was rumored that Tekashi and Ariela had a factor occurring, it was by no means confirmed as such a declaration would’ve put an enormous goal on her again, as 6ix9ine stays one of many most-hated human beings within the Hip-Hop tradition (in all probability greater than Donald Trump). That being stated, Tekashi himself has a historical past of home violence, so who is aware of what police will uncover as soon as every part is claimed and executed. May it have been Tekashi’s opps? May Ariela have gotten herself right into a pickle with the incorrect individuals? May it have been a case of mistaken id?
What we do know is she labored as a hostess at Opus Lounge in Inwood. The enterprise saluted her on social media. RIP.
Hopefully we’ll get solutions earlier than later.
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