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Layla Martinez (Photo: RCN)
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Mrs. Universe’s husband assassinated in northern Colombia

by Adriaan Alsema May 25, 2013

The husband of Mrs. Universe, Colombia’s Layla Martinez, has been killed in the northern city of Barranquilla, local media reported Friday, adding that the victim was a member of drug cartel “Los Rastrojos.”

Juan Carlos Cantillo was one of two alleged members of the Rastrojos who were shot dead in a shoot-out Thursday in a bakery located in the north of the Caribbean port city.

According to Barranquilla’s police commissioner, General Jose Vicente Segura, the shoot-out was a result of infighting between Caribbean and Pacific-based factions of the Rastrojos.

The current Mrs. Universe had previously denied her husband was a drug trafficker when Russian media started reporting on her possible connection to Colombia’s infamous and illicit export product.

MORE: My husband is no narco, and if he is, he is not my husband: Mrs Universe

Martinez is a Barranquilla native. She was elected Mrs. Universe, a beauty pageant for married women, in August last year.

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