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State and federal authorities are working together to clarify the case in which three police officers were shot dead yesterday on Green Island.
The incident, the scene spanning from Carolina’s jurisdiction to St. John’s, left a fourth bullet-wounded policeman whose condition at the time is unknown.
On the other hand, the police have not revealed details of the suspect (s) of the crime, but assured that they have received information with which they could soon start an identification process using a confrontation wheel.
Here’s what we know so far:
1. Start with a shock
A crash on Roberto Clemente Avenue, near the Carolina Shopping Center in Carolina, was the trigger for the suspect in the murder of officers to try to steal a Carolina Municipal Police motorbike and then fail. he stole the car from a woman, by carjacking, at 65th Infantry Avenue in front of Clinical Medical Services (CMS) which led to a chase to arrest him.
2. Shooting at the Baldorioty
Carolina Municipal Police joined the state to find the whereabouts of the man who was driving a white 2003 Hyundai Accent. In the attempt, they reached Baldorioty Avenue in Castro, near from the Embassy Suites hotel and the Happy World condominium, where the suspect shoots the agents repelling the act. During the shooting two officers were injured while another died after being hit.
3. Extent of persecution
The chase starts from 65th Infantry Avenue and culminates in the residential Luis Llorens Torres where the police say that the suspect hid.
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 Salaman Comte, of the Carolina Municipal Police.
5. Designate July prosecutors given the complexity of the crime
Due to the expansion of the scene, the appointed Secretary of Justice, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, assigned seven prosecutors to investigate the facts.
The prosecutors are Jorge Umpierre, Jimara Gabriel, Melitza Osorio, Mayor 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 cooperates in the case
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that it will be working in conjunction with local authorities during the conduct of the investigation.
7. Develop research operations
Two helicopters of the United Forces of Rapid Action (FURA) were activated to provide assistance in the search for the alleged suspect in the crime at the residential Luis Llorens Torres.
The operation has been going on since last night and will continue, according to the police commissioner, until they find the whereabouts of the subject.
As part of the search, authorities raided an apartment that was occupied by several weapons, ammunition and another series of drug items. However, it was not reported whether this property is related or belongs to the suspect.
8. Pierluisi declares three days of mourning
Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia has declared three days of national mourning this morning as part of the assassination of the three police officers while they were performing their duty yesterday in Carolina.
9. They find a corpse with a sign that described him as the perpetrator of the crime
Authorities found at 1:59 a.m. on San Jose Street, intersection with Muñoz Rivera Avenue, in Santurce the lifeless body of a man accompanied by a sign saying he was the alleged killer of the cash.
Police linked the scene to the incident, as the body, which they found among garbage bags, had “similar characteristics” to the alleged killer 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 the design of a caravel.
10. The high command of public safety meets
The murder of these three policemen is joined by another seven that occurred last night in various parts of the island. The incident prompted police chiefs and the Department of Public Safety to meet in an emergency at 7:00 a.m. today to outline a plan to develop the investigation into the events in Carolina and expand resources. to investigate the rest of the violent deaths.
11. They wait for the Institute of Forensic Sciences
Police said today during a press conference that they will wait for the autopsy report on the body found in Santurce to establish the process to be followed in the investigation into the murder of the officers.
Lieutenant Colonel Rolando Trinidad indicated that they cannot be categorical in stating that the body with a sign found this morning belongs to the police killer. By contrast, the also assistant director of the Island-level Criminal Investigation Division said the search operation continues.