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“I am just proud of him. And he died in what he liked, with his boots on. He liked the job, he loved the police. He liked what he was doing. “
This was expressed yesterday, when leaving the Institute of Forensic Sciences (ICF), Mrs. Maria Luisa Diaz, mother of the state soldier Luis Marrero Díaz, who was killed Monday afternoon while pursuing a murderer in Isla Verde, in events in which Carolina municipal police officers Luis Salamán Conde and Eliezer Hernández Cartagena were also shot.
Díaz gave his statements after going through the painful process of identifying his son’s body at the ICF, where he went with his niece Jheylimar, the eldest of Agent Marrero Díaz’s three daughters.
Moments before, at the entrance to the building, although he was still strong, he was heard telling the agents who accompanied him: “If I fall, they will take me.”
Like Díaz and his niece, the families of agents Salamán Conde and Hernández Cartagena went through the identification process at the ICF at some point yesterday, while at the same time arranging funeral homes for the awakening and burial of officers. .
A fourth family had to go to the ICF yesterday to identify their relative, the man who appeared killed with a sign accusing him of being a police killer, in events that are still being investigated whether or not they are related to the continuation of criminal events that they ended the lives of the three agents.
“He was very good. Thank God, ”Díaz said of his son, reiterating the pride he felt for him.
He said he really likes sports and especially baseball. “He was a player. He played from the age of three, in all categories, up to double A. He played with Cidra, Comerío, Florida, Vega Alta and I’m not sure if with Manati “, he said. “He liked sports, and when the old men came to play, one was missing, they would tell him at home, ‘Luisito, come on, we’re missing one,’ and he’ll come down.”
“And he was always on the field with the girls. Forever. He was one of those fathers present in the daughters’ sport “, added Lieutenant Milery Méndez, who studied with agent Marrero Díaz and also shared at the Police Academy.
“It simply came to our notice then. The practice that the girls had, was father “, seconded the mother of the state agent.
“An excellent father, an excellent son. I’m not complaining about my son. “I’ve never had a complaint from anyone in my life about him, from anyone,” he insisted. “I’m very proud of him.”
He also commented that Marrero Díaz, who “was the son of two civil servants, a firefighter and a teacher,” spent his time helping other people.
“More than proud to be a police officer, I am very proud of the human being that the Lord has allowed me to create. He was an extraordinary human being. Always helping others, helping in pain, “he added. “About three months ago, a neighbor’s baby was killed, and he was the one who took care of everything, coming to Forensic Sciences, escorting him with his motor boat, the whole funeral, he did everything. He was put to work. “