Canserbero, whose real name was 'Tirone Gonzalez', was named the best rapper making music in Spanish by 'Rolling Stone' and was compared to Tupac Shakur. It was ruled that Canserbero threw himself out of a 10th-floor window after killing his producer Carlos Molnar in a knife fight when he was 26.
HIS DEATH WAS MADE TO LOOK LIKE A MURDER
On Tuesday, Venezuela's Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced that Natalia Améstica, Canserbero's former manager, had confessed to both murders and to making it look like suicide with the help of her brother Guillermo Améstica.
"IT CAUSED ME GREAT PAIN"
Natalia Améstica told authorities that she was outraged after learning that Canserbero was planning not to give her the money for a Chilean tour that she had organized and that he intended to fire her.
"It hurt me a lot and caused me a lot of pain inside," Natalia Améstica said in her confession video.
"I STABBED HIM MANY TIMES"
Natalia Améstica said she had an opportunity when the two artists came to visit her home in Maracay on January 19, 2015.
The rapper's former manager said he repeatedly stabbed both Canserbero and Molnar, with whom he had a longtime relationship, after spiking their tea with a powerful tranquilizer.
"I REACHED OUT TO MY BROTHER TO HELP ME"
Natalia Améstica said she then reached out to her brother to help her clean up the murder scene.
Améstica said that her brother came to her house with three officers from the Venezuelan intelligence service Sebin, who stabbed both men several more times and hit Canserbero in the face to make it look like they had a fight.
"WE WERE TOLD HOW TO THROW HIM OUT THE WINDOW"
"Then we were told how to throw him out of the window to complete the murder-suicide mise-en-scene," Natalia Améstica said. Guillermo Améstica confirmed his sister's account.
Guillermo Améstica said that the forensic experts who came to the house told him that the crime scene appeared to have been staged and asked for 10,000 US dollars to keep up with the trick.
6 PEOPLE ARRESTED
Attorney General Saab told a press conference that arrest warrants have been issued for intelligence officers, a forensic pathologist and several detectives who helped change the crime scene. Venezuela's Attorney General said 6 people have been arrested and more are being sought.
BODY EXHUMED
Saab said Canserbero's family and fans had long had doubts about the circumstances surrounding the singer's death, and the case was reopened in November, when the rapper's body was exhumed for examination.
"NOW HE CAN REST IN PEACE"
"Canserbero is a martyr of Venezuelan youth and a hero of national culture. Canserbero can now rest in peace," he wrote.
