Three men were shot to death in the early hours of this Sunday by unknown assailants inside a vehicle in a neighborhood of San Lorenzo, a municipality in eastern Puerto Rico, the Police reported.
According to the authorities, a call to 12: 12 (04: 22 GMT) to the headquarters of the San Lorenzo police warned about some shots fired at kilometer 0.3 of the PR-916 highway, located in the Cerro Gordo neighborhood of the aforementioned municipality.
When the police arrived at the scene, they located inside a white Ford F-150 truck of the year 1995 , to three men with multiple gunshot wounds in different parts of their bodies.
The deceased have not yet been identified.
Agent Anthony Egea, assigned to the Homicide Division of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Caguas area, together with prosecutor Francisco Gonz ález and the staff of the Institute of Forensic Sciences took charge of the investigation.
This is the most recent multiple murder that has occurred in Puerto Rico since at the end of July, four men, between 22 and 53 years old, were shot to death by a group of hitmen in an intense shootout in a public residential area (popular neighborhood) in San Juan.
Prior to that event, other multiple murders had been reported in Puerto Rico in early July near a baseball park in Levittown, a sector of the municipality of Toa Baja (north), in the Villa Esperanza public housing estate in San Juan and in Juncos (east).
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