Two men were killed in shootings reported in Loíza and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, according to preliminary reports from the Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s press office. The first killing happened at about 11:14 PM on Friday, November 6, at the Equino Sport Bar in the Villas de Loíza neighborhood in Loíza, where a man died of gunshot wounds.
How the events unfolded could not immediately be established. The Carolina Homicide Division is investigating. The second killing was reported at about 7:16 AM on Saturday, November 7, through a call to the 9-1-1 Emergency System.
The body was found "near the Candelaria housing project, in Mayagüez," about eight meters from building number 1 of the complex. The corpse had gunshot wounds, and multiple shell casings were observed at the scene. The Mayagüez Homicide Division will handle that investigation.
With these two killings, the count of violent deaths so far this year rose to 369.