A Los Angeles man was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend after a tip on TikTok was found and led to his arrest.
Victor Hugo Sosa, 25, was convicted of of the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Daisy Delao, whose body was found behind her apartment building complex in Compton in February 2021.
Authorities immediately identified Sosa as a suspect, but he fled to Rosarito, Mexico, where he got a job at a popular nightclub (Rosarito Bar and Nightclub Papas & Beer)
“Papas & Beer is like a tourist-type restaurant, bar,” says Lt. Calderaro. “And based on the information we gathered he had been working there for several weeks.”
“This guy was just living his best life in Rosarito, like he had done nothing,” says Delao’s mother of the photo a tipster sent Daisy’s friends of Sosa at the bar. “It’s very clear when he’s drinking, smoking… this is a person with no conscience, no conscience, for you to murder someone the way he murdered my kid.”
.He was eventually caught months later, with the help of the viral TikTok hashtag #JusticeForDaisy.
As the videos about Delao’s murder spread, a tipster recognized Sosa and provided information on his whereabouts to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Cops caught up with Sosa on July 2, 2021 and he was extradited back to LA on charges of first-degree murder.
Sosa was convicted Wednesday of stabbing Delao to death with a knife, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
Security footage from the apartment building that night may play a role at trial. Detectives believe it shows Sosa dragging Daisy into the alley.
Delao’s mother spoke to reporters and said, “My daughter ended her relationship with Sosa just weeks before her murder after he had physically abused her.”
“No matter how many years he gets in jail, I can never get her back. Never. He stole so much from me,” Salas said.
“My daughter is never going to give me grandkids,” Salas says through tears. “I will never be at my daughter’s wedding. I will never see my daughter grow.”
Salas tells Eyewitness News that Daisy was in her second year at East LA College and dreamed of owning her own business one day. She was creative, loved camping and cooking with her mom.
Salas says Sosa texted Daisy that February night and convinced her to come outside.
“I’ll be back, OK, I won’t take long, I promise,” Salas remembers Daisy saying. “Those were her last words my baby girl told me. She left, she never came back.”
Daisy’s grandfather tells Eyewitness News he saw Victor Sosa peeking in through their apartment window that night before Daisy left.
The next day Salas got a call from homicide detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. She rushed home. Daisy’s body was still at the scene.
“There was a body bag, that was my kid,” Salas cried. “He was holding me, so I fell, my legs became like Jell-O and I fell to the ground and I started crying – where’s my kid? Where’s my kid? Where’s my kid?”
Property manager Juan Tellez found Daisy’s body early the next morning, covered by a roll of carpet.
“I found the body right there,” Tellez said as he pointed to an alley-like area between two apartment buildings. “I got scared when I saw the body because it surprised me. I never found a body right there, so I picked up the carpet, oh my God!”
Daisy’s spirit will live on through her mother and two brothers, never forgotten by her family.
“I will love her forever, I will miss her forever,” says Salas. “Until I stop breathing, until I meet her again.”
