Authorities identified as David Emanuel Rivera Batiz to the man who was found this morning with a sign describing him as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of three agents, in Carolina.
According to the Police Press Office, Rivera Batiz was 25 years old and a resident of Ponce. At the state level, the individual had a criminal record for violating Vehicle Property Act 8.
This morning, Lt. Col. Rolando Trinitat confirmed that a man with “similar characteristics” to the suspect in yesterday’s murder of two municipal and one state agent in the middle of a persecution on Green Island was located lifeless at 1:59 am on San Jose Street, intersection with Muñoz Rivera Avenue in Santurce.
The officer stated that the individual showed several bullet impacts and was accompanied by a sign identifying him as the perpetrator. “I am responsible for the murder of the guards. Here it is,” the message read. The individual, who 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.
“A series of information has been received that is being corroborated, including that the person responsible for these events had been executed near the YMCA in Santurce. A body with similar characteristics was found, but obviously the investigation continues and it is not that we have already concluded the investigation until it has been reliably identified as the person.We continue with our administrative management and asking the public to communicate any information they have confidential at 787-343-2020 “, Established the director of the Auxiliary Superintendency of Criminal Investigations (SAIC), Rolando Trinitat Trinitat a The New Day.
“He had a card that identified him as the person who had committed the acts and, in addition to that, there are some calls to Radio Control de la Policía that said the area where the body had been thrown. This was verified. information and, in fact, a body was found with descriptions similar to those narrated by the witnesses who were the perpetrators “, Added Trinity, who is in charge of the investigation.
Trinidad stressed that despite these facts, the search will continue, so that state and federal agents remain in the residential Luis Llorens Torres, in San Juan, where the person responsible was allegedly interned after the events. Although the authorities already had access to several videos, today they will try to get more images. The Justice Department, meanwhile, assigned seven prosecutors to the investigation.
“There was an injured comrade here, there were some carjackings, there were exchanges of gunfire where the lives of some citizens were exposed, so we are not going to rest with the person responsible for these events. indeed it is the person who appeared lifeless in the area of the YMCA, who can be established without a doubt none who is responsible for these facts “, He pointed out.
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Earlier, Police Negotiation Commissioner Antonio Lopez confirmed that authorities were looking for several individuals, including one who has an arrest warrant for criminal charges at the federal level.
“I understand it’s hiding in this area (the residential one),” Lopez said. “We have been here since yesterday and we will be there as long as necessary for us to be handed over to this individual and he can be brought to the ultimate consequences.”, Established Lopez at WKAQ – 580 AM.
Faced with this, López called on citizens to cooperate with the authorities to identify those responsible for the murder of identified agents such as Luis Marrero Díaz, Luis Salaman Conde and Eliezer Hernández Cartagena.
Authorities said police were chasing a white Hyundai Accent car when a man allegedly shot at them and fled. The act was later found without its driver in the residential Luis Llorens Torres.
The individual, who was described as a “tall, skinny, brunette” man, obtained the vehicle by “carjacking” a woman, who is well, a police source told The New Day.