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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2005 
Star Dies After Robbery Scare
 Associated Press
| | Levy, the daughter of television news personality Talina Fernández, appeared in soap operas including "Rosa Salvaje," and most recently "Amor Real." |
Television actress Mariana Levy, 39, died on Friday of a heart attack after a man armed with a pistol approached her van on a Mexico City street.
Levy appeared on the Nuestra Casa show on the Televisa network. She started her career as a singer in the 1980s, and later went on to appear in more than a dozen soap operas.
A man was arrested and later identified by Levy's husband as the man who approached the vehicle, in which the couple was taking several children to a local amusement park.
Another witness said the man had earlier approached his car and tried to rob him, according to local prosecutor Carlos Gurrea.
But Gurrea noted the suspect who was being held on suspicion of illegal weapons possession did not apparently directly threaten or make any contact with Levy.
The mere shock of seeing him approach the vehicle apparently triggered the attack.
"He never threatened them ... there was no physical or verbal contact," Gurrea said of the man, who has a previous record for robbery and auto theft. Earlier reports had said the man had tried to rob Levy of her watch.
Citing Levy's husband, José Maria Fernández Jr., Gurrea said the children in the van began screaming and his wife began having trouble breathing when they saw the man with the pistol.
He took her to a nearby clinic, where she died.
The death shook the nation's entertainment world.
Levy, the daughter of television news personality Talina Fernández, appeared in soap operas including "Rosa Salvaje," and most recently "Amor Real." She is survived by her husband and three children. |
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