The exchange of text messages between the boxer Félix Verdejo and other people, contained in his cell phone, would implicate others in relation to the murder of Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz, sources reported.
The boxer’s mobile phone was seized by the authorities a few days ago.
Sources indicated that the messages are compromising and reveal that at least one other person was in communication with Verdejo before and after the murder of Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz.
However, the cooperating witness from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the federal prosecutor’s office has only pointed to Verdejo as the only person involved in the crime, which occurred on April 29.
On the other hand, this newspaper learned that in addition to acquiring the drug administered to Keishla in a “caserío”, Verdejo had also asked to buy an abortion pill.
Verdejo is admitted to the Guaynabo Metropolitan Detention Center, after the prosecutor Jonathan Gottfried filed a complaint against him in which he is accused of ‘carjacking’ and kidnapping that led to the murder de Rodríguez Ortiz and the death of an unborn child.
According to the sworn statement of an FBI agent, the testimony of the cooperating witness “who had first-hand knowledge” of the events that occurred, indicates that on April 27 Verdejo contacted him and asked for help in terminating the pregnancy of the victim, as Keishla had communicated to the boxer that she was pregnant with his baby.
On April 29, the boxer contacted the victim and agreed to arrive at her residence. Verdejo and the witness traveled aboard a black Dodge Durango suv.
The victim arrived at the agreed location in her vehicle, a gray Kia Forte car, and got into the boxer’s vehicle.
After they talked, Verdejo punched her in the face and a substance was injected to her with a syringe, which was acquired at a drug spot in the Luis Lloréns Torres caserío.
Verdejo and the witness are alleged to have tied her feet and arms with wire. Then they tied a block to her. The witness took the keys to the Kia vehicle and boarded it.
The boxer and the witness took the vehicles to the Teodoro Moscoso bridge, which crosses the San José lagoon between Carolina and San Juan, and threw Keishla’s body into the water.
Immediately afterwards, Verdejo shot her from the bridge.
Subsequently, the victim’s vehicle was abandoned and agents of the Puerto Rico Police found it on April 30 in Canóvanas.
That day, after Keishla’s parents gave her phone number, FBI agents obtained call and location data from the victim’s cell phone. That same day, they obtained Verdejo’s call records.
The analysis of this data showed that on April 29, the phones associated with the victim and Verdejo were connected in several cellular communication towers, located very close to each other.
Records of phone calls obtained by the FBI showed various communications between Verdejo and the victim between April 28 and 29. A call and several text messages were specifically reflected on April 28 in the morning hours.
On April 29, the FBI checked the surveillance cameras of Teodoro Moscoso. Around 8:29 a.m. The video shows a dark SUV, consistent with Verdejo’s vehicle parked in the emergency lane. The video shows at least the movement of one person next to the vehicle. Then the vehicle is seen leaving the place, and returning on at least two occasions.
Later, the police found a shell casing on the bridge.
