Free Republic

A 24-year-old tourist from Delaware was killed in Puerto Rico over the weekend after allegedly buying drugs in a coastal shantytown, authorities said. Tariq Loat and a friend, James Jackson, were attacked in La Perla on Saturday following the alleged drug deal when they tried to take photographs, despite being told not to, according to Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa. The duo were beaten with an exercise weight, a piece of wood and a deep fryer, authorities said. Jackson managed to flee and was later hospitalized, authorities said. But Loat’s badly burned body was found by authorities on Sunday in...