They arrest an interested person in the triple murder in Caguas

Police this afternoon arrested a man who was fleeing from Moisty Skate Park, where the murder of three young men was reported last night.

Officer Edgardo Ríos told El Nuevo Día that this person of interest meets the characteristics they received from reports during their investigation and that he will now be interviewed by the authorities.

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

Likewise, authorities claimed this morning that a homeless man is responsible for the murder of the youth.

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 when he saw five young people walking through the area ‘without saying a word’, three of them. they.

“This is a complicated, complex scene and we are still here. It happened at 9:27 AM. It is a remote, lonely area, where once the facilities of swimming pools were. A total of five boys arrived and came to survey the area and the incident discovered that three of them had been murdered, ” the sergeant said. radio interview (WKAQ 580 AM).

Correa ruled out that the crime was related to drugs or some form of contraband. He added that two young men, also between the ages of 19 and 20, were unharmed in the midst of the events.

“These young people used to come to this place and every day they went deeper and apparently found someone who used this place as home. The person asks what they are doing here, takes out a firearm and shoots them “, Correa told.

Moisty Skate Park, a property of about 40 strings, closed in 2013 after more than three years of operations.