In a surprising turn of events, the case surrounding the death of Tyrone González, widely known as Canserbero, has been reopened by the Venezuelan authorities. The renowned rapper, previously declared a suicide victim in 2015, has now been revealed as a homicide victim, according to recent statements by the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab.
Saab presented confessional videos from the “two murderers,” identified as siblings Natalia and Guillermo Améstica, during a press conference. The decision to revisit the case and exhume Canserbero’s body followed the Ministry of Public Prosecution’s determination to reassess the incident, refuting the initial official version that labeled it a suicide. The rapper was initially reported to have jumped from the tenth floor of an apartment building in Maracay, northern Aragua, after fatally injuring his friend Carlos Molnar during a fight.
In the revealed videos, Natalia Améstica disclosed that she drugged Canserbero and her husband Molnar with a high dose of alpram, an anxiety medication, mixed into a drink. She then stabbed them several times. Subsequently, she claimed to have enlisted her brother Guillermo, a music producer, to help cover up the double murder by staging a fight between the singer and his friend, ultimately throwing the artist’s body out of a window.
“This was all done, aside from being cold-blooded, with premeditation,” stated Prosecutor Saab. The motive behind the crime, as per the latest investigations, was the demand for payment for a tour that Canserbero had undertaken in December 2014 in Argentina and Chile, which the Améstica siblings claimed to have financed.
Saab reported that six individuals are in custody, with more at large. Arrest warrants have been issued for six initial police responders to the crime scene, accusing them of receiving $10,000 from the Améstica siblings to conceal the double murder. An additional seventh officer died in service in 2018.
The public prosecutor also ordered the apprehension of a forensic pathologist and two prosecutors involved in the initial investigations. Saab concluded by saying, “Canserbero can rest in peace,” drawing parallels between this case and the unsolved murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in the United States in 1996.