A South Florida social media influencer and her mother are working through the emotional and physical scars left after they were allegedly attacked by the influencer’s former stepfather.
“I just said, ‘How sad, that these are the last minutes of my life,’” Eixchel Berroteran, known as Eixchelb to her 4.3 million TikTok and 650,000 Instagram followers, told our sister station Telemundo 51 in Spanish in tears. “I felt so bad for my mom; I was saying, ‘God, please.’”
Berroteran, who is originally from Venezuela, refers to the moment she says 64-year-old Luis Damas, who was married to her mother for 13 years, arrived at their Miami apartment unannounced intending to kill them both.
Damas has been separated from Berroteran’s mother, Francys Damas, for eight months.
According to an arrest report, it was Aug. 21 when Damas knocked on the door. His ex-wife had a friend over and told him she’d …