Who Killed Canserbero? — Everything We Know
The most significant crime in Spanish-language hip-hop has been solved
The death of Venezuelan rapper Canserbero has been one of the great mysteries in the history of Spanish-language hip-hop, at the same level as the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996. Tirone José González Orama was found dead in January 2015 in Maracay after falling from a building. The main hypothesis until now was the suicide of the young artist, who was only 26 years old at the time, after allegedly murdering Zion TLP bassist Carlos Molnar, his friend and coworker. However, his own relatives had cast doubt on the police investigation procedures.
And they were right, because this past December 26, after the reopening of the case and the exhumation of the body to reinvestigate the cause of death, Venezuela’s General Prosecutor Tarek William Saab showed journalists video confessions from two key agents: the rapper’s former manager, Natalia Améstica, and her brother Guillermo. In the video, Natalia reveals that she drugged Canserbero and Molnar and then stabbed them due to money and interest disputes: Molnar owed her money for tour tickets, and Canserbero had informed her that he no longer wanted to continue under her management.
#VEA aquí las #escalofriantes#confesiones sobre el doble asesinato de#Canserbero y Carlos Molnar que Natalia
Amestica y Guillermo
Amestica, nos #revelaran a través de un largo interrogatorio que les hice a ambos -en presencia de #Directores y de #Fiscales del @MinpublicoVEN en… pic.twitter.com/7lewWWCSYA
— Tarek William Saab (@TarekWiliamSaab) December 26, 2023
After the incidents, Améstica’s brother would have helped her cover up the crime, staging a fight and throwing Canserbero’s body out of a window. Both allegedly paid police officers $10,000 to stage the crime scene as a «homicide-suicide.»
«These brutal revelations express how the Amestica siblings conspired out of hatred, envy, a thirst for revenge, and financial ambitions to kill Tyrone Gonzalez, Canserbero, and Carlos Molnar on January 19, 2015,» Williams declared alongside the video recordings on his social media.
In total, up to 6 people have been arrested for the murder, with the main motive being a dispute over money. The Prosecutor General’s Office has issued arrest warrants against several police officers, a forensic pathologist, and two investigators who were part of the initial investigation.