A MEXICAN YouTube star has been shot dead after telling an El Chapo linked drug lord to "suck my d**k".

Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales was gunned down at a bar on Monday night as he partied with friends.

8 Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales was shot dead after publicly taunting a cartel boss with links to notorious drugs baron Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Credit: Central European News

The 17-year-old died after taking between 15 and 18 bullets to his body.

The Mexican social media star was filmed insulting Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes also known as "El Mencho".

Weeks after he posted the video mocking the drug lord he was shot dead by an armed gang at Mentados Cantaros in Tlajomulco in in Culiacan, in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa.

The popular internet personality, who went by the nickname El Pirata de Culiacan, accidentally gave away his location using Instagram.

8 The YouTuber mocked El Mencho, pictured, before he was murdered

8 The social media star was shot and killed weeks after he posted a video mocking the dangerous drug lord Credit: Central European News

At around 11pm on Monday night, gunmen burst into the music venue and opened fire.

They took aim at Juan and fired more than 15 times, leaving him mortally wounded.

A 25-year-old employee of the bar was also shot, they later died in hospital from their injuries.

Juan was extremely popular online, he had more than 1,000,000 followers on Facebook as well as 300,000 on Instagram and 30,000 on Twitter.

Watch baby faced YouTube star 'El Pirata de Culiacan' Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales in action for all his fans

8 The social media star went by the nickname El Pirata de Culiacan, or The Pirate of Culiacan Credit: Central European News

8 The 17-year-old star reportedly gave away his location on Instagram Credit: Central European News

8 He shot to fame after videos of him drinking heavily went viral in Mexico Credit: Central European News

8 The YouTuber insulted Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, a drug lord nicknamed El Mencho in one of his videos Credit: Wikipedia

8 El Mencho is pictured in police mug shots after being arrested in his younger days

He was famous for his baby face and sense of humour, often posting pictures poking fun at the fact he was overweight.

Juan would share photographs of himself hanging out with beautiful women and drinking alcohol.

He seemed to inadvertently predict his own death, after photoshopping himself into the final photo of Tupac Shakur, taken shortly before the rapper was shot.

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El Mencho is one of Mexico’s most wanted men and currently has £3.7 million bounty on his head.

He is the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel which previously had an alliance with El Chapo’s Sinola Cartel.

But El Mencho’s powerful gang also once kidnapped El Chapo’s two sons while they were out partying on his turf in Puerto Vallarta.

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