New York man killed in Puerto Rico while visiting the island by Bad Bunjito

A New York tourist was a fatal shot at Sunday morning while visiting Puerto Rico to attend Bad Bunny residenceSaid the police.

The victim, identified as Kevin Mares, 25, was killed in La Perla, a popular marine city next to the sea near Old San Juan, police said in a statement.

The shooting occurred in the hours of preview in a night -view point of view called “refuge for mistreated men.”

Mares was shot on the left side of his abdomen and was taken to the largest public hospital in Puerto Rico, where he died, authorities said.

Homicide detective sergeant. Arnaldo Ruiz told The News in a telephone interview that the shooting took place when several people near the seas began to argue, and one took out a gun and shot at least three people. Two other men living in the pearl were injured and remained hospitalized.

“We are still in the early stages of establishing a reason for events. We cannot rule out anything until the interviews are completed,” Ruiz told local media, according to the new day.

Police sergeant said Mares was an innocent spectator who was visiting Puerto Rico with friends for one of Bad Bunny concerts. The musician’s high profile residence has attracted tens of thousands of visitors to the territory of the United States.

Ruiz added that Mares’s three friends were also from New York. He did not have its cities of origin.

The pearl is located on the outskirts of a popular historical district among tourists known as the old San Juan. A couple of hundreds of people live in the city Shantytown, which once served as the greatest distribution point in Puerto Rico for heroin and was known for their violence.

The police used to avoid the community, which used to have a sign that would proclaim: “Not open to visitors. Do not enter.”

But violence decreased when hundreds of federal agents raided the poor neighborhood in 2011 and arrested dozens of people, including a well -known community leader who was later convicted.

The neighborhood became even safer and cozy After Puerto Rican singers Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee presented him in his success, “Despacito”.

But isolated violent incidents persist.

In February 2023, Three tourists were stabbed After the police said a person told them to stop filming within the community.

Then, in April 2024, a 24 -year -old tourist from Delaware was killed and his body caught fire after the police said he and a friend were attacked after a drug purchase. Police said the victims were trying to take photos of the pearl after they were warned not to do so.

The island of 3.2 million people has reported 277 murders so far this year, compared to 325 murders in the same period last year.

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