In an interview with Carla Angola on the program Buenas Noches, on Globovisión, Sánchez stated that at the age of eleven he started a competition with a friend, Juan Salas, to decide who could sneak into more public events.
Sánchez began by interrupting the musicians Servando y Florentino, in Caracas, and continued climbing for seven hours on pier 21 of the Maracaibo Bridge; after asking the governor of Zulia for help, he received ten thousand bolivars by then.
In an interview with Panorama, he explains that he did it because he wanted to "beat Juan" and ask Maduro for help for his family; He put on a borrowed red jacket, went to the National Assembly and pretended to be the son of Diosdado Cabello.
[10][11] Yendri was released after attempting suicide during his detention by setting his mattress on fire and throwing himself over glass doors when going to the bathroom once, breaking part of his arm.
[3] Yendri Sánchez was found dead on 6 August 2018 in the house where he lived, in a state of decomposition, where, according to security personnel, his hands and feet were tied, with a bag over his head.
[2][12] Two weeks later, the scientific police of the CICPC arrested three suspects in Ciudad Ojeda, according to the Ministry of the Interior, the subjects confessed "to having incurred in an episode of sexual extravagance in which they strangled" Yendri Sánchez, ruling out robbery as the reason for the homicide initially considered by the investigative bodies.