Puerto Rico Police reported that a man was killed and another was wounded by gunfire in an incident on highway PR-5 in the Puente Blanco neighborhood of Cataño. Officials said that around 2:40 p.m. on Thursday, a call to the 9-1-1 Emergency System reported what was initially described as a traffic accident at the scene.
When officers arrived, they found a man who had already died. According to the police report, another man connected to the incident arrived with gunshot wounds at a hospital in Cataño. As of the report, neither man had been identified, and the circumstances of the incident remained under investigation.
Personnel from the Homicide Division of the Bureau of Criminal Investigations (CIC) in Bayamón were deployed to the scene to investigate.