A South Florida social media influencer with a large following was shot at and nearly killed by her former stepfather who’s facing attempted murder and other charges in the incident, police said.
Eixchel Berroteran, known as Eixchelb to her 4.3 million TikTok and 650,000 Instagram followers, documented the incident in a social media post.
“Only God knows why I’m still here and I ask him to give me the strength to move on and that at some point he can heal my heart,” she wrote in Spanish on Instagram in a post that included photos and videos of her bloodied hand and the other injuries she suffered.
Berroteran, who is originally from Venezuela, isn’t named in the police arrest report nor is her mother, who was also a victim in the incident.
According to the arrest report, the incident involved 64-year-old Luis Damas, who was married to Berroteran’s mother for …