Police closed all lanes of the PR-22 expressway in the San Juan-to-Carolina direction, behind the Plaza Las Américas shopping center, in the early morning after a pedestrian died on the roadway. The identity of the deceased has not been released. According to the police report, the case was called in around 2:50 AM, when the driver of a gray Toyota RAV4 traveling the highway from Bayamón toward the Minillas Tunnel did not notice a man on the pavement and struck him with the front of her vehicle.
Besides the closure at kilometer 2.5, one of the ramps connecting PR-22 with Las Américas highway (PR-18) was also closed. Authorities are corroborating all the circumstances of the incident and have confirmed it was a person who took their own life. Officer Zujeily Vega, assigned to the Hato Rey Oeste precinct, conducted the preliminary investigation and referred the case to the Assault Division of the Criminal Investigations Corps (CIC) of San Juan, whose agents will continue the investigation in coordination with the prosecutor on duty.
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