A 53-year-old man was wounded by a bullet on the night of Friday, November 6, as he was leaving his home in a vehicle in the Montellano sector of the Cuchillas neighborhood in Morovis, the Puerto Rico Police Bureau reported. The incident was reported through the 9-1-1 Emergency System at kilometer 1.9 of PR-618. According to the police report, the man said someone fired several shots from a wooded lot next to the road and that one of them struck him in the left hand.
The injured man was taken to a hospital in the area, where the doctor on duty diagnosed the gunshot wound and said his condition was stable. The Property Crimes Division of the Arecibo Criminal Investigations Corps (CIC) will continue the investigation.