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A Wave of Violent Daytime Killings Has Puerto Rico on Edge
The New York Times ^ | January 13, 2019 | Alejandra Rosa and Frances Robles

Posted on 01/14/2019 6:14:03 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Liz G. Rodríguez Quiñonez grew up schooled in being able to throw her body to the floor in the middle of the night, in the event that stray bullets from a nearby shootout came crashing through her window.

But it was only this past fall when Ms. Rodríguez, who operates a food truck in a town just east of the Puerto Rican capital, experienced her first murder: Standing by the stove in her truck one morning in September, she heard a series of pops, then screaming, and realized that the man who was the intended target of the gunfire was standing right behind her truck. She ducked — thanks to the training from her youth — but there was no hope for the man, who died only a few feet away.

It was not yet noon.

“I saw the dead body. He was around 30 years old. It was horrible,” Ms. Rodríguez, 30, said with a shudder.

Puerto Rico has long had one of the highest murder rates in the country, almost all of it attributable to gang violence. But a recent spree of brazen daylight killings, some of which were captured on video and widely shared on social media, have shaken the population and worried local and federal law enforcement officials who thought they had seen everything in the roiling, populous city of San Juan.

On Jan. 6, several men engaged in a morning shootout on the service road of a major thoroughfare in Isla Verde, near the airport, leaving one man dead. On Wednesday morning, a gas station security camera in Dorado captured a gunman in a ski mask who calmly walked up to a Honda, fired at its driver and left.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; murder; puertorico
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Sh!thole.


41 posted on 01/14/2019 7:20:29 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: goldstategop
Democrat paradise...

Bingo!

42 posted on 01/14/2019 7:21:30 AM PST by GOPJ (Replace furloughed government workers with illegals for ten bucks an hour. Show dems how it feels.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Too bad they missed Menendez


43 posted on 01/14/2019 7:40:11 AM PST by Renegade
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To: Fido969

“It” got killed a long time ago. Emergency muumuu alert & bring some eyebleach!


44 posted on 01/14/2019 7:59:16 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

Agreed. Then they can show us all what social chaos really looks like.

And we can keep them out of the US.


45 posted on 01/14/2019 7:59:51 AM PST by onedoug
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To: elcid1970

She might look better from the front


46 posted on 01/14/2019 8:13:58 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I was assigned and lived in PR 35-40 years ago and enjoyed it. I was the only non-Puerto Rican in the small town in which we lived and they were all great - never had a problem. During that time they had a plebiscite in which the population could vote for the current status, statehood or independence. Those voting to be independent were less that 1% of the population. It turns out it was only the PR communist party wanting independence and they were heavily supported by Castro’s communist party. They also were the loudest, with violent protests, dynamiting communication towers, etc.


47 posted on 01/14/2019 8:25:48 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hmm, any correlation to the demonrats being there?


48 posted on 01/14/2019 8:27:28 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Fido969

“Menendez: “You’re killing it, girl!” “

No, he is asking “how much?” - look at his hand.


49 posted on 01/14/2019 8:28:08 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Jane Long; Jet Jaguar; Lazamataz

I didn’t know I felt that strongly about it.


50 posted on 01/14/2019 8:35:15 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Fido969

Note he has the democrat stance hand always open.


51 posted on 01/14/2019 9:15:36 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: metmom

Reach down and move your selector switch from full auto to a 3 rd burst, like the rest of US!;)


52 posted on 01/14/2019 9:34:39 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Con-gre$$, the biggest welfare class this country has ever produced.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

We should sell PR back to Spain before the democrats regain power and grant them statehood.


53 posted on 01/14/2019 12:45:38 PM PST by youngidiot (Admiral Mike Rogers is a hero.)
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To: elpadre
prolly wants her to pay him...
54 posted on 01/14/2019 5:16:43 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

[Democrats are down there on vacation. They should be rounded up as suspects.]

That works for me.


55 posted on 01/14/2019 7:24:08 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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