A female police agent who had arrived wounded at the Salinas Highway Police Dept. died last night, authorities confirmed. Her ex-partner, who is also a Police Officer, is the main suspect.
Update: The Puerto Rico Police arrested, last night, the ex-partner of the agent who died, after arriving with gunshot wounds at the Police Station, in Salinas, authorities confirmed.
During the past year, agent Brenda Liz Pérez, who was shot to death last night in what the Police Department is investigating as an incident of domestic violence, had requested a Restraining order order so that her ex-partner, also a police officer José Rivera Velázquez, would leave their residence in the El Naranjo sector of the town of Salinas, Puerto Rico.
According to Colonel Roberto Rivera, of the Auxiliary Superintendency of Criminal Investigation, a judge “issued a protection and eviction order, which is how it could be done, but by the first week of December it had been rendered ineffective.”
The claim before the court, he indicated, was due to the fact that Rivera Velázquez did not want to leave the home.
It was in this house that Pérez Bahamonde, who had been part of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau since 2000, was shot last night. Seriously wounded, the agent arrived at the headquarters of the Highway Division in Salinas, which is located minutes from her home.
According to Colonel Rivera, once at the barracks, Pérez Bahamonde offered information that led to the arrest hours later of her ex-partner, who was arrested in a residence in the Ceiba de Cayey neighborhood.
At that time, Rivera Velázquez’s vehicle was sealed and occupied, since his regulation weapon, as can be seen with the naked eye, is lying in the back seat area. The uniformed man also has a fracture in one of his hands, as well as cuts.
Pérez Bahamonde, who was attached to the Guayama Criminal Investigation Corps (CIC), was transported by paramedics to the Guayama Mennonite Hospital, where she died.
“We are going to get an order for the official registration of his (Rivera Velázquez) vehicle to seize a weapon that is inside the car. While this is happening, we are taking a series of videos along the entire route that we have already mapped out and we have identified some places where he stopped,” explained Colonel Rivera.
In addition to the recordings, the Police is trying to interview several residents of the El Naranjo sector since the authorities received a call to the Salinas district headquarters where they were alerted about shots in that area.
“We are going to continue investigating all circumstantial, scientific and digital evidence that we need to file this case,” said the colonel, who confirmed that the case is “definitely” being investigated as one of domestic violence, because the victim and the detainee were a couple. .
The Spress learned that some of the recordings that will be evaluated by the Police correspond to those of the Colmado Luisito, located on the PR-1 highway, where Rivera Velázquez was moments before the events occurred.
The investigation is in the hands of agent Mary A. Ramos, from the Guayama CIC Homicide Division, and prosecutor María López Aponte.
