American comedian kidn@pped and k+lled in Colombia after meeting a woman he met online

A popular Asian-American comedian and activist, Tou Ger Xiong, has been kidn@pped and k+lled while on vacation in Colombia.

He was found d£ad on Monday, December 11, in Medellin after he went to meet a woman he’d been chatting with online, according to Colombian authorities.

The 50-year-old refugee from Laos based in Minnesota who billed himself as America’s “first Hmong comedian,” arrived in Medellin for a vacation on November 29.

Eh Xiong, his brother, told local news station KSTP-TV that he last heard from his brother on Sunday evening when he asked for $2,000, which he sent. Tou Ger Xiong never confirmed receiving the money.

Eh Xiong also said that when he didn’t receive a response after a couple hours, he called Tou Ger Xiong’s roommate, who told him that he also received a phone call from him, saying that he was being “held at g¥npoint.”

Tou Ger Xiong’s body was discovered the next day beside a ravine in a woody area of the Robledo neighborhood of Medellin with more than a dozen st@b wounds, authorities said.

Colombian investigator Yiri Milena Amado told local media in a press conference that Tou Ger Xiong went to meet the woman on Sunday and at 7 p.m. he contacted someone in the United States asking for $2,000. Authorities said they believed he may have been k+lled after he tried to escape.