A person of interest is arrested in the triple murder in Caguas

Police arrested a man this afternoon who ran out of the area around Moisty Skate Park, where the murder of three young people was reported last night.

Agent Edgardo Rius told El Nou Dia that this person of interest meets the characteristics they received from reports during their investigation and will now be interviewed by authorities.

This morning it was confirmed that the victims were identified as Alexis Y. Velez Torres, Nilson D. Pérez Altagracia i Frankie J. Coss Báez. They were all 19 years old and resided in Caguas.

Similarly, this morning the authorities alleged that a homeless man is responsible for killing the youths.

Sergeant David Correa explained that the preliminary investigation shows that the man, who has not been identified, lives in the facilities of the old water park and that when he saw five young people passing through the area “without saying a word” murdered three of them.

“This is a complicated, complex scene and we are still here. It happened at 09:27 at night. It is a secluded, lonely area, where at one point were the facilities of some swimming pools. A total of five boys arrived. who came to explore the area and came across the incident that three of them were killed, “the sergeant detailed in radio interview (WKAQ 580 AM).

Correa ruled out that the crime was related to drugs or some kind of smuggling. He added that two young people, also between 19 and 20 years old, were unharmed in the middle of the events.

“These young people used to come to this place and every day they went deeper and apparently met a person who used this place as housing. The person asks them what they are doing here, pulls out a gun and shoots them.”, Narrated Correa.

Moisty Skate Park, a property of about 40 ropes, close 2013 after more than three years of operations.