Puerto Rico authorities identified Yaneris Crespo Vázquez, 36, whose body was found shot dead on Highway 908, kilometer 9.9, in the Jagüeyes neighborhood of Yabucoa, the Puerto Rico Police Bureau reported. Crespo Vázquez, a San Lorenzo resident, had no criminal record, no active protection orders and no registered gender-violence cases, police said. Authorities have not disclosed a possible motive, but the femicide protocol was activated.
According to preliminary information, a call around 4:00 AM on Sunday alerted authorities to a person dead with several gunshot wounds on that road. Officers arriving at the scene located the woman’s body, which family members officially identified. Agents from the Homicide Division of the Criminal Investigations Corps (CIC) in the Humacao area, together with the Prosecutors’ Office and personnel from the Institute of Forensic Sciences, took charge of the investigation.
The Puerto Rico Police Bureau has reported 32 women killed so far this year, of which 10 were intimate femicides carried out by a partner or former partner.