17-Year-Old TikTok Star Fatally Shot After Rejecting Man’s Advances, Police Report
Sana Yousaf has died at age 17 after she was fatally shot, Pakistani police confirmed on Tuesday, June 3.
The TikTok star, who had over one million followers across her social media platforms, was killed at her home in the capital Islamabad on Monday night, reported CBS News.
Police have arrested a 22-year-old on suspicion of her murder, per the outlet. Law enforcement says he spent hours loitering outside her home.
The accused involved in Yousaf’s murder was arrested within 20 hours, according to IG Islamabad Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi’s press conference with senior officers on Tuesday.
“It was a case of repeated rejections. The boy was trying to reach out to her time and again,” Rizvi said during a news conference, per CBS News.
He added, “It was a gruesome and cold-blooded murder.”
Yousaf was a popular content creator on TikTok with more than 800,000 followers on the app. She was known for her lip-sync clips, skincare advice and beauty product promo videos.
The last post that Yousaf posted on Instagram was a video showing her cutting a cake in celebration of her birthday, just hours before her death. Fans filled her comment section with heartfelt tributes.
