US tourist shot dead at Puerto Rico Bad Bunny concert
A US tourist who visited Porto Rico for Bad Bunny’s residence, said that La Perla, a popular coastal shanty, was hit in a fatal way.
According to a police statement, the victim was described as 25 -year -old Kevin Mares, who lives in New York.
At the preparation hours of Sunday, La Perla, a coastal community that struggles to shed his dark reputation, took place at a night point called “Shelter for Men who were treated as a healing”.
Murder detective Sergeant Arnaldo Ruiz said in a telephone conversation that a few people near Mares started to argue and one shot at least three people, including the mare. In the middle of their 40s, a man and a sister living in La Perla were injured and taken to hospital.
Ruiz said Mares was an innocent audience. Bad Bunny, who attracted tens of thousands of visitors to the US region, was with the three friends who told the police that they were in Porto Riko for one of the 30 concerts of Bunny.
Authorities, the left side of the stomach was shot and Porto Rico was taken to the largest state hospital, he said.
Ruiz said the police did not know what people have been discussing about, and that they did not make a statement about the shooter. “We have very little information,” he said.
Ruiz added that Mares’s three friends are from New York. He didn’t know their hometown.
La Perla is located at the foot of a popular historical region among tourists known as former San Juan. Once upon a time, a few hundred people, known for its severity, live in the slums.
Police, formerly “is not open to visitors. Do not enter.”
However, hundreds of federal agents raided the slum neighborhood in 2011, and then arrested dozens of people, including a well -proven proven community leader.
Porto Rico singers Luis Foni and Father Yankee, Hit Despacito’da after taking part in the neighborhood was even more safe and more hospitable.
However, it is isolated, severe events continue.
In February 2023, three tourists were stabbed after the police told a person to stop shooting in the community.
Later, a 24 -year -old tourist from Delaware was killed in April 2024, and after saying that the police and a friend were attacked after drug recruitment, his body was set on fire. Police said they were trying to take photos of La Perla after warning that the victims would not do this.
3.2 million people, compared to 325 murders in the same period last year, reported 277 murders this year.
