Four men, between 22 and 53 years old, were shot to death by a group of gunmen in an intense shooting on Friday night in a public residential (popular neighborhood) in San Juan, the Puerto Rico Police reported this Saturday.
Three of the four victims killed in the Juan César Cordero Dávila public residential complex, better known as the Quintana residential complex, were identified as Dereck Ortega Gandía, from 23; Raúl Ortiz Centeno, from 38, and David John Ortega Ayala, from 53.
Two other young people were transported to the emergency room of a hospital in the area, where one of them, identified as Diego Morales Morales, aged 22 , died while receiving medical attention.
At the moment, no has been identified and the condition of the other wounded youth is unknown.
According to preliminary information provided by the authorities, an alert to the Shot Detection System (“shotspotter”) notified the police about some shots were fired at the scene.
When the agents arrived, they found the bodies of four of the deceased with multiple gunshot wounds.
Last 25 July, the same public housing complex was also the scene of the shooting murder of Waldemar Vázquez Méndez, who was as a suspect in several violent deaths, including that of a woman in the area.
The authorities attributed to Vázquez Méndez the control of “points” (places of sale) of drugs in the area.
This multiple murder adds to Others that have occurred this year in Puerto Rico, the most recent since in early July three people were found murdered near a baseball park in Levittown, a sector of the municipality of Toa Baja (north).
The victims of this multiple murder were identified as Jonathan Rosario Rosado, of 21 years; Ismarie Rodríguez Morales, from 22, and Cristian Joel Nieves De León, from 23 .
At the end of last May, another two multiple murders were recorded in Puerto Rico. In the first of them, gunmen shot five men to death in the Villa Esperanza public housing complex in San Juan.
The second case, which occurred in Juncos (east of the island), resulted in the death of three young people, between 20 and 23 years old, whose bodies were located inside a vehicle.
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