Attorney Yadira Adorno, who represented William Rivera in a civil lawsuit against former statehood leader Félix Plaud and criminal defense attorney Luis Quiñones, said his death came like a bucket of cold water and that she never saw signs of what was coming. Adorno told Telenoticias that during their professional relationship she got to know Rivera beyond his court controversies and that he was appreciated by her office staff.
She said that although she knew about his financial difficulties, she never identified behavior suggesting he could carry out a double killing. Rivera had shared concerns about his businesses, including a food truck project that was not producing the results he expected, and Adorno had recommended considering a change of location, but she said those conversations were like any she would have with any client.
Asked whether he had expressed anything that could be read as a warning sign, she said that was her greatest pain because it was something she could not have avoided or foreseen. Rivera was claiming $666,000 from Plaud and Quiñones over an alleged failed investment in a project for a medicinal cannabis dispensary in Cupey: $166,000 he said he invested and $500,000 for emotional damages, believing he had been betrayed through false representations about the business.
Rivera Sánchez was found without vital signs on the afternoon of Friday, October 23, after publishing a video in which he confessed to killing Quiñones in Ponce and Plaud.