San Juan, Puerto Rico – Police said that an American tourist was visiting Puerto Rico because of Bad Banni’s stay, he was shot early Sunday in La Perla, a famous Shetian Shahir.
The victim was identified as Kevin Maris, 25, who lived in New York, according to the police statement.
Predawn’s shooting at a night point called “shelter for men who offended their treatment” in La Perla, a coastal community that fought to deliver his dark reputation.
Sergeant killing laboratory. Arnaldo Ruiz said in an interview on the phone that the shooting had occurred when many people began near the Maris in the controversy, one of them pulled a pistol and shot at least three people, including Afras. Two other men living in Los Angeles Perla were injured in the hospital.
Ruiz said Maris was an innocent separation. With three other friends, they told the police that they were in Puerto Rico at one of the Bad Bunny 30 concerts, which attracted tens of thousands of visitors to the American region.
The authorities said that Maris was shot on the left side of his stomach and was transferred to the largest general hospital in Portorico, where he died.
Ruiz said that the police do not yet know what people were arguing and they have no description of the absolute. “We have a very little information,” he said.
Ruiz added that Mares’s three friends were also from New York. He had no hometown.
La Perla is located on the outskirts of a common historical area for tourists known as the old San Juan. A few hundred people live in Shantytown, which once served as the largest distribution point in Puerto Rico for Hirin and was known for its violence.
The police used to avoid society, which had a sign of declaring, “not open to visitors. Don’t enter.”
But the violence eased when hundreds of federal agents raided the poor living in 2011 and arrested dozens of people, including a well -known community leader who was subsequently convicted.
An air view of the coastal neighborhood is seen at La Perla, in San Juan, Portorico, on August 25, 2017.
AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File
The neighborhood became safer and more welcoming after singer Portorico Luis Fonsi and Abi Yanky appeared in their success, “Debasito”.
But isolated and violent incidents still exists.
In February 2023, three tourists stabbed after the police said a person told them to stop filming inside the community.
Then, in April 2024, a 24 -year -old tourist was killed by Delaware and set his body after the police said that he and a friend was attacked after the drug purchased. Police said the victims were trying to take pictures of La Perla after warning them against doing so.
An island of 3.2 million people has reported 277 killings so far this year, compared to 325 killings in the same period last year.
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