Russian influencer Ali Zabirov, who went by the name of Egor Gromov, has been found murdered in a friend’s house, he was only 23 years old.
Egor regularly received homophobic abuse from trolls as he was unashamedly himself. Egor’s body was discovered by Russian police in a flat of a friend, aged 46, on 2 August in St.
Petersburg. His body showed signs of a violent death, including bruising around his neck, indicating that he’d been strangled.
The Daily Star reports that police currently believe that the owner of the flat beat Egor to death after Egor attempted to come onto him following a night out.