Teenage TikTok star Sana Yousaf has died at the age of 17 after being fatally shot inside her home in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Yousaf, who had over 1 million followers on the popular platform, was killed in the Pakistani capital on Monday, June 2.

Police said she was shot dead by a man who had repeatedly tried to contact her through social media, reported CBS News on Tuesday, June 3.

"It was a case of repeated rejections. The boy was trying to reach out to her time and again," police chief Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi said during a Tuesday news conference, per CBS News. "It was a gruesome and cold-blooded murder."

A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, local police said.

Yousaf regularly posted lip-sync videos, beauty tutorials and reviews on TikTok, amassing 1.1 mill

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