Nearly three years after the killing of Cristian Dranath Medina Tirado, his mother, Marlyn Tirado, is still calling for justice in the case. Medina Tirado, 25, died in the early hours of November 12, 2023, while he was with his best friend at a business in Jayuya, during a dispute. Authorities arrested Emmanuel Reyes Dávila in the case.
Tirado said her son knew Reyes Dávila and that the two had had problems years earlier over a romantic dispute. According to Tirado, the two met at the establishment and, as a fight was about to break out, Reyes Dávila shot her son. She added that after Medina Tirado fell to the floor, the attacker struck him with the butt of the firearm and then shot him again, killing him.
The case reached a hearing for the filing of charges, at which three sworn statements were presented. Those statements and the case the Puerto Rico Police presented were not enough for Judge Wilda Rivera to find probable cause against Reyes Dávila. Tirado called on the judges who handled the case and on the witnesses in her plea for justice for her son’s death.