Police reported on Friday that a 34-year-old man was shot dead in the early morning on Emérito Estrada Rivera avenue, PR-125, in San Sebastián. The killing was reported around 12:16 AM after a 9-1-1 call alerted authorities to gunshots in the area. Officers found a man lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds that killed him instantly.
The victim was identified as Orlando Santiago Soto, 34, a San Sebastián resident who was on probation for a 2024 controlled substances case. Homicide Division agents of the Criminal Investigations Corps (CIC) of Aguadilla took over the investigation along with prosecutor Teishlynd Rodríguez. Police asked anyone with information to call 787-343-2020, or contact @PRPDNoticias on X or www.facebook.com/prpdgov on Facebook.
In a separate case, police are investigating an aggravated assault in which a man was shot several times early Friday at the Juana Matos public housing complex in Cataño. The wounded man, not yet identified, was taken by paramedics to a hospital, where his condition was described as stable. Officers from the Cataño District conducted the preliminary investigation and referred the case to the Assault Division of the Criminal Investigations Corps (CIC) of Bayamón, which will continue the inquiries.