TikTok star Gabriel Salazar, who had more than 2.2 million followers on the social media platform, died following a fiery crash in Texas, authorities reported on Friday.
Besides Salazar, the deadly crash also killed three other people.
Around 1:20 a.m. Sunday, a Crystal City police officer pulled over the car Salazar was driving in Zavala County, about 100 miles outside of San Antonio, according to the Zavala County Sheriff’s Office. Reports did not clear why the vehicle was stopped.
Then, the officer reported he was in pursuit of the car, a white Chevy Camaro driving on Highway 83.
"A deputy joined the pursuit and tried to deploy a tire deflation device that was unsuccessful,"the sheriff's office added.
During the chase, the "Chevrolet Camaro drove off the road, over-corrected, and traveled across the roadway, onto the west barrow ditch," according to the Texas Department of Public Safety, which is leading the investigation into the crash. "The vehicle struck some trees, rolled several times, and the vehicle caught fire."
Later, Salazar, 19, who made his name on TikTok under the handle "gabenotbabe" and boasted a following of more than 800,000 on Instagram, was pronounced dead at the scene.
In the same incident, Jose Luis Jimenez-Mora, 41, Jose Molina-Lara, 23, and Sergio Espinoza-Flores, 36, were also killed. The three passengers were Mexican nationals, according to the public safety department.
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