A 37 -year -old man with a criminal record converted himself into a police on Friday In a recent murder of a tourist From the American mainland, who flew to Puerto Rico for the residence of Bad Bani.
According to a statement by Puerto Rico’s Department of Justice, Kalel Jorel Martinez Bristol faced allegations including first-degree murder.
Police said the 25 -year -old victim, Kevin Mars of New York, was an innocent spectator when he hit a bullet in the early hours of Sunday, while La Perla’s seaside in a nightspot with friends in the coastal community.
Sandra Mars
Officials arguing with the Martinez Bristol with people near Mars of extracting a gun and firing. Two people, a brother and a sister who lived in La Parala, were injured.
Defense lawyer Pedro Riviera told reporters that he was “very surprised” officials did not register murder charges, saying that the whole case was suspected.
Martinez Bristol is being held on a $ 800,000 bond.
The community of La Perla is located on the outskirts of Old San Juan and has once served as Puerto Rico’s largest distribution point for heroin. It became popular with tourists, when Puerto Rickon singers Louis Fonsi and Daddy Yanky painted the community in their hit “Despasito”.
But isolated violence persists.
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.