El Komanche

Carlos Mauricio Gómez was born in September 1996 in El Salvador. Spanish Wikipedia and El Tiempo give his birthplace as San Sebastián, in the department of San Vicente, while BBC News Mundo reported that he was born in nearby Ilobasco and grew up in San Sebastián, where he lived until he was about 24. In a 2023 YouTube video he said he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 18 and spent time in psychiatric hospitals over the following years, before he found a sense of purpose in live streaming. He left university studies to concentrate on streaming.

Komanche began streaming on Twitch in 2015. His early content focused on video games such as Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft and Fortnite, along with talk streams with his community. His audience grew sharply between 2020 and 2022, and he collaborated with leading Spanish-language creators including Fernanfloo, Ibai Llanos, Coscu and El Rubius.

In January 2022 the first Squid Craft Games took place, an elimination tournament inside Minecraft modelled on Squid Game and run as a Twitch Rivals event. Komanche was one of its promoters alongside AuronPlay, El Rubius and Eufonia Studio, led by Alejandro Corrales, and according to the Costa Rican outlet CRHoy he helped put the studio in contact with AuronPlay and El Rubius. The event became one of the largest successes on the platform. The second edition was presented at a live event in Barcelona on 12 February 2023, hosted by Komanche and El Rubius, and was played from 28 February to 5 March 2023 with 200 participants and a prize fund of 100,000 dollars. Komanche competed as well as organising and was eliminated on the fourth day.

In later years he added music reactions to his streams. A declared fan of Bad Bunny, he spoke briefly with the singer when Ibai Llanos called him live during an interview, and he later interviewed the Puerto Rican singer Mora. He also took part in the Kings League Américas. He was due to appear in Ibai Llanos's boxing event La Velada del Año 6, but his bout was cancelled after he revealed it early. His career also included public disputes with other creators, among them Spreen and La Liendra in 2023.

Komanche moved to Mexico in the early 2020s and made his home in Monterrey, Nuevo León. He spoke openly about his mental health: in October 2023, after several months away from social media, he posted a video describing his diagnosis and how online criticism had affected him, with the aim of encouraging others to seek professional help. His manager said he loved his country deeply and had several projects under way at the time of his death.

Komanche was found dead at a house in the Paseo de Cumbres neighbourhood of Monterrey on the evening of Sunday 25 October 2026, after neighbours alerted the authorities. His manager, Byron Reyes, confirmed his death on Instagram on 26 October after speaking to his family. He was 30.

The Nuevo León state prosecutor's office opened an investigation, classifying the case as a death pending autopsy, and had not formally announced the identification or the cause of death when the first reports were published. Media outlets, including EFE and BBC News Mundo, reported that the cause was not known.

Tributes were posted by fellow creators including AuronPlay, Ibai Llanos, Coscu, Westcol and Spreen. Reyes and Coscu used their messages to criticise harassment on social media, though reports noted there was no official information linking those comments to the circumstances of his death.

Komanche is remembered as one of the first Central American streamers to reach a mass audience across the Spanish-speaking world, and as a co-creator of the Squid Craft Games, a landmark event for Spanish-language Twitch. His public discussion of his mental health was widely recalled after his death.