A group of police officers in Puerto Rico is being investigated this Tuesday by local authorities for allegedly shooting to death an unarmed minor 17 years old in events that occurred in the Monday night in a sector of San Juan.
According to the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, the young Javier Cordero Nevares was driving a vehicle, which had been reported stolen on Monday, initiating a chase with police agents.
Cordero Nevares continued driving to the La Riviera urbanization, in San Juan, where he found a dead end, trying to escape from the officers.
The newspaper El Vocero reported that when the officers tried to intervene with the minor, they began to shoot him.
The victim, who was unarmed, received some bullets from the hands of the agents, dying in the act.
At the scene 61 bullet casings were raised c open 9 millimeters.
Seven officers and a sergeant were the ones who allegedly shot the minor.
The eight officers were disarmed as part of the investigation, reported El Vocero.
The Department of Justice said this Tuesday that since Monday night it began an investigation together with the Bureau of Special Investigations and the Institute of Forensic Sciences on the death of the minor.
At the request of the Secretary of Justice, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, he referred today to the Division of Public Integrity and Comptroller Affairs, to continue the investigation in the Area of Crimes against Civil Rights.
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