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State and federal authorities are working together to clarify the case where three police officers were shot yesterday in Isla Verde.
The incident, which ranged from Carolina jurisdiction to San Juan, left a fourth police officer injured by a gunshot whose condition is unknown at the time.
On the other hand, the Police did not disclose details about the suspect or suspects of the crime, but assured that they received information with the help of which they could soon start an identification process through a confrontation round.
Here’s what we know so far:
I started with an accident
An accident on Roberto Clemente Boulevard near the Carolina Mall in Carolina was the trigger for the suspect in killing officers to try to steal a motor boat from the Carolina Municipal Police and, after failing, he stole the car. to a woman. , by car, on 65th Infantry Boulevard in front of the Clinical Medical Services (CMS), which led to a manhunt to arrest him.
2. Shooting at Baldorioty
Carolina City Police joined the state police to find out where the man driving a white Hyundai Accent was in 2003. In an attempt, they arrive on Baldorioty de Castro Boulevard, near the Embassy Suites Hotel and Mundo Condominium. Happy, where the suspect shoots the agents who reject the deed. During the shooting, two officers were injured, while another died after being hit.
3. Extension of persecution
The pursuit begins on 65th Infantry Boulevard and ends in the Luis Lloréns Torres residential area, where police say the suspect has been hiding.
4. Three officers died in the midst of the persecution
The officers were identified as Luis Marrero Díaz, of the State Police, and Eliezer Hernández Cartagena and Luis Salamán Conde, of the Carolina Municipal Police.
5. Appoint 7 prosecutors because of the complexity of the crime
Due to the extension of the scene, the appointed general prosecutor, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, appointed seven prosecutors to investigate the events.
The prosecutors are Jorge Umpierre, Jimara Gabriel, Melitza Osorio, Edil Barbosa, Steven Liong, Iris Martínez Juarbe and Alfredo Carrión, who is the director of the Metropolitan Center for Investigations and Complaints (CMID).
6. The FBI is cooperating in this case
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that it will work with local authorities during the investigation.
7. Develop search operations
Two United Nations Rapid Action Forces (FURA) helicopters have been activated to provide assistance in the search for the alleged crime suspect in the Luis Lloréns Torres residence.
The operation takes place last night and will continue, according to the police commissioner, until the subject is found.
As part of the search, authorities searched an apartment where they confiscated several weapons, ammunition and other items from drug trafficking. However, it has not been reported whether that property is related or belongs to the suspect.
8. Pierluisi declares three days of mourning
Governor Pedro Pierluisi declared this morning three days of national mourning as part of the killing of the three policemen while they were exercising their duty yesterday in Carolina.
9. I find a body with a sign that qualified him as the perpetrator of the crime
Authorities found around 1:59 a.m. on San José Street, at the intersection with Muñoz Rivera Boulevard, in Santurce, the lifeless body of a man accompanied by a sign saying he was the alleged killer of the troops.
Police linked the incident to the incident, as the body, which they found among the garbage bags, had “similar characteristics” to the alleged murder of the officers.
The individual wore gray shorts and a black shirt, had a tattoo on his right arm that read “Sofia” and another on his right leg with a caravel design.
10. The high level of public security control is met
The assassination of these three police officers is joined by seven others that took place last night in different parts of the island. The events prompted senior area police directors and the Department of Public Safety to meet urgently at 7:00 a.m. today to present a plan to conduct an investigation into the events in Carolina and expand resources to investigate other violent deaths.
11. Pending the Institute of Legal Sciences
Police said today at a news conference that they would wait for the autopsy report on the body found in Santurce to determine the process to be followed in the investigation into the murder of the officers.
Lieutenant-Colonel Rolando Trinidad indicated that they cannot be categorical, stating that the body with a sign found this morning belongs to the police killer. On the contrary, the assistant director of the Criminal Investigation Division at the island level said that the search operation continues.