Police say

A New York tourist was badly shot in the early hours of Sunday, while visiting Puerto Rico to appear Bed bunny habitatThe police said.

Police said in a statement that the victim, known as 25 -year -old Kevin Mars, was killed in a popular seaside Shantitown La Perla near Old San Juan.

The shooting took place in a nightspot in one night hours, called the “shelter for abused men”.

Officials said Mars was shot to the left side of his stomach and was rushed to Puerto Rico’s largest public hospital, where he died.

Homeoid Detective Sergeant. Arnoldo Ruiz told Associated Press in a phone interview that the shooting took place when many people started arguing near Mars, and one took out a gun and shot at least three people. Two other people living in La Parala were injured and hospitalized.

Ruiz told local media, “We are still in the early stages of establishing a motive for events. El Nuevo Diya,

Police Sergeant said that Mars was an innocent person who was visiting Puerto Rico with friends for one of the 30 concerts of bad Bani. The musician’s high-profile residency has attracted tens of thousands of visitors in the American sector.

Ruiz said that three friends of Mars were also from New York. He did not have their hometowns.

La Perla is located on the outskirts of a historic district, popularly known as Old San Juan. A few hundred people live in Shantateown, once served as Puerto Rico’s largest distribution point for heroin and were known for their violence.

The police used to avoid the community in which a symbol was announced, “Not open to visitors. Do not enter.”

But the violence decreased when hundreds of federal agents raided the slum in 2011 and arrested dozens of people, including a famous community leader who was later convicted.

Neighborhood This made even safe and more welcome After Puerto Rickon singers, Louis Fondi and Daddy Yanki painted it in their hit, “Despasito”.

But different violent incidents persist.

In February 2023, Three tourists stabbed Police said that a person asked him to stop filming inside the community.

Then, in April 2024, a 24 -year -old delaware tourist was killed and police said his body said about the police that he and a friend were attacked after drug purchases. Police said that after warning the victims not to do so, La was trying to take pictures of Perla.

The island of 3.2 million people has reported 277 murders so far this year, compared to 325 murders in the same period last year.