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"Tragic news out of Venezuela: Telenovela star and former beauty queen Monica Spear was shot and killed during a highway robbery on the Valencia-Puerto Cabella highway, police said Tuesday, Jan. 7. She was 29 years old.\r\n\r\nSpear was on vacation with her ex-husband, Henry Thomas Berry, in Caracas, Venezuela, when they got into a minor accident that stranded their gray Toyota Corolla on Monday, officials told NBC News. Armed men approached the car and opened fire after the couple locked themselves inside with their 5-year-old daughter.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nBoth Spear and her ex, 39, were killed in the incident. Their little girl, Maya, was shot in the leg; she survived.\r\n&amp;quot;To think there are people who can shoot a mother and father in front of their daughter is very sad and unbelievable,&amp;quot; Diego Sanchez, who knew the family for six years, told NBC. &amp;quot;And it&amp;apos;s shocking when it happens to someone you know.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nDescribed by a friend as a &amp;quot;really happy, outgoing person,&amp;quot; Spear was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2005. She later went on to appear in a half-dozen soap operas, most recently Telemundo&amp;apos;s Pasion Prohibida and Flor Salvaje.\r\nHer costar, Jencarlos Canela, mourned her death via Twitter. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m without words,&amp;quot; he wrote. &amp;quot;I will miss my friend @MonicaSpear. And I love you, beautiful Maya. You are not alone!&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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