Police in the Philippines are investigating reports that American YouTuber Elliot Eastman died during an armed kidnapping by four gunmen posing as police officers on Oct. 17
Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work previously appeared on ok.co.uk, in OK! Magazine and Reach PLC magazines.Police in the Philippines are investigating reports that kidnapped American YouTuber Elliot Eastman has been shot dead.
On Thursday, Dec. 5, the Police Regional Office-Zamboanga said a witness told them Eastman died the night of his abduction in the banca, according to GMA Regional TV. “We are constrained to believe that he has died. All of the information that we have points to that,” Sawan said per AP, but he added that without the victim’s body, “we’re still leaving a little bit of hope that it may not be the case.”
AP reported that Sawan said police had told Eastman’s Filipino wife and the U.S. Embassy in Manila about his reported death.“I came to the Philippines about a year and half ago where I met the love of my life deep in the mountains of the red zone of the Philippines,” the bio on Eastman’s Channel reads. “Zamboanga del Norte is a recently developed area of the Philippines that was once only accessible by boat.
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