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Puerto Rico police officer fatally shoots 3 colleagues at headquarters
“Our condolences for the families”, Puerto Rico Police Deputy Superintendent Col. Juan Rodriguez Davila wrote on Twitter.
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The officer who was arrested is accused of killing a police commander, a lieutenant and an officer. Check back for more details.
In a letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, portions of which were released Sunday by the governor’s office, Garcia Padilla said the new stance contradicts the USA past position that the autonomy Puerto Rico gained through the approval of its 1952 constitution should remove it from the U.N.’s list of non-self-governing territories.
According to the Washington Post, Candelario Rivera took the three fellow officers hostage, and hostage negotiators were reportedly talking with him when he shot them.
“Even though I am a human being like any other, I have tried to compose myself to stay firm and do what’s right so that my colleagues understand that they have a leader that will guide them as I have always, on the right path”, he said. Officials said the victims were Lt. Luz Soto Segarra and Cmdr.
Ramirez said that investigators have yet to determine a motive.
The shooting occurred inside the lieutenant’s office at the police headquarters in the southern coastal city of Ponce.
The building where the Ponce Police Command is located was evacuated for security reasons, after Rivera said he had planted an explosive device inside.
‘Ponce is in mourning, ‘ Mayor Maria Melendez said in a statement. Frank Roman, both 49, and 42-year-old policewoman Rosario Hernandez.
‘He rarely had any time off, ‘ Cruz said of Roman.
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The Puerto Rico Police department-comparable to state police elsewhere in the U.S.-is in the midst of a 10-year federally mandated reform, after the Department of Justice found in 2011 that it was “broken in a number of critical ways”.