Stories shared on Instagram by the sister of Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz, allegedly murdered by former Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo, show the anger of the young woman’s family one year after her death.
Hours before the one year anniversary of the murder of the 27 year-old girl, who at the time of the events was allegedly pregnant by the boxer, Bereliz Nichole shared the sentiment of impotence that still overwhelms her, other members of her family, and other people inside and outside of Puerto Rico, as a result of the case.
. At this hour, how the fuck was she able to sleep, because everything was already planned in her cabro bus she already had the cabro blocks, the damn wire to tie her up. This is not from God, ”the young woman shared in her profile on the social network. “What damn helplessness to want to return to this day and stop everything,” reads another of Bereliz Nichole’s messages on Instagram.
“Coward, a girl as harmless as her“, the young woman continues. “But it’s nice that she got to see you in action and see who you really are.” “So any. Her only defense was a piece of paper, while you beat her up, drug her, tie her up with blocks, throw her off a bridge. Devil, but so much hate. Wasn’t it easier to shoot him in the forehead and that’s it, kid? Why did you make her suffer so much? I thought she was in the trunk of her car…”, questioned the sister.
Bereliz Nichole referred to the methodical procedure of the alleged murderers of her sister after Verdejo summoned her to supposedly speak about the pregnancy.
On the day of the events, the victim had agreed to meet with the ex-fighter to show him a blood test that confirmed the pregnancy.
According to the testimony that Verdejo’s buddy and co-defendant in the case, Luis Antonio “Tony” Cádiz Martínez, gave to federal authorities, Verdejo contacted the victim the day before to meet her near her residence. The witness accompanied the defendant to the appointment in his black Dodge Durango bus.
When Keishla arrived at a part of the metropolitan area in his Kia Forte, he got on the boxer’s bus.
Cádiz Martínez reported that, after a conversation, the deadly attack against the pregnant woman began.
“After a conversation between Verdejo and the victim in Verdejo’s car, Verdejo hit the victim in the face, and she was injected with a syringe filled with substances purchased at a drug point in the Llorens Torres residential complex. Verdejo and the witness then tied the victim’s hands and feet with a cable. A cement block was tied to the victim. The witness took the keys of the victim and drove the car of the victim who was nearby”, reads the complaint of the federal authorities based on the confession of the accomplice to the FBI special agent Lorenzo Vilanova Pérez.
“Verdejo and the witness drove the two vehicles to the Teodoro Moscoso bridge that spans the San José lagoon, between San Juan and Carolina,” the document continues. “Verdejo and the witness drove to the bridge where the victim was removed from the car and thrown off the side of the bridge into the water. Verdejo shot the victim from the bridge with a pistol. The victim’s car was later abandoned.”
The forensic examinations carried out on the body of the young woman showed that while she was falling into the water, she was still alive.
The cause of death of Rodríguez Ortiz, as established by the Institute of Forensic Sciences (ICF), it was asphyxiation by immersion.
Verdejo, who had an “official” relationship with Eliz Marie Santiago Sierra and had fathered a girl with her, apparently did not want Rodríguez to have the baby and not complicate his relationship with the mother of his daughter.
Both Verdejo and Cádiz Martínez remain in prison in Puerto Rico until the start of the trial.
They face charges of “carjacking” and kidnapping that led to the murder of the young woman as well as an unborn baby.
The former fighter also faces a charge of using and carrying a firearm during and in connection with a crime of violence.
Although, initially, Verdejo and the co-defendant were exposed to a sentence of death penalty if convicted at the federal level, the United States Department of Justice decided not to seek a death sentence. Experts believe that prosecutors had doubts about his ability to convince jurors of Verdejo’s guilt, among other things, because of his popularity for having been a prominent athlete.
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