Beauty queen’s cryptic final bikini post before being gunned down in broad daylight

A stunning beauty queen shared a cryptic post just days before being gunned down in a fatal gang shooting.

Former Miss Ecuador contestant Landy Párraga Goyburo, 23, was seen chatting to a man at a restaurant in Quevedo, Ecuador, as masked assailants made their way into the building. Both Párraga and a man believed to be her boyfriend, Jose Luis Betancourt, were shot as the second gunman stood by the door.

Both attackers then fled the scene where Párraga lay dying in a pool of blood. The Ecuadorian beauty queen had been in Quevedo for a wedding on Saturday (April 27).

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CCTV footage showed the moment Párraga was gunned down(Image: Twitter)

Párraga’s cryptic final post to Instagram six days ago saw the beauty queen reference light as “an echo”. The beauty queen stunned in an orange bikini and wrote: “Life is an echo, what you send out comes back to you.”

Dozens of fans left comments on the post airing their grief over the shooting. One said they “can’t believe it,” while another fan said they had been left “with a broken heart”. Párraga had been mentioned in a chat between cartel accountant Helive Angulo drug trafficker Leandro Norero, who was killed in October 2022, New York Post reported.

Prosecutors of Angulo found he had been asked to keep a relationship between Norero and Párraga quiet. The former drug trafficker had written: “If my wife comes across anything about her, I’m screwed. My friend, her name cannot come out anywhere. Otherwise, my world will come crashing down.”