Puerto Rico Police investigators are interviewing a man who had been sought for several days as part of the investigation into the killing of a woman in Yabucoa on Sunday, November 8. Preliminary information indicates the man arrived voluntarily at a police barracks of the Drugs Division in Fajardo, where officers from the Criminal Investigations Corps (CIC) of the Humacao region picked him up.
On Wednesday, November 11, Sergeant Johan Cantres, director of the Humacao Homicides Division, said no suspect had been identified at that point. "We’ve covered practically everything in this case, but we’re still recovering videos. We’re trying to locate a vehicle connected to this, a red Toyota. We need to ask him if that vehicle is his," Cantres said.
"We’re interested in talking to that person because we want to ask what kind of relationship he had with her, whether he was a cousin, brother, friend... or what," he added. Cantres said reports that the man would appear at the Humacao command on Wednesday were "rumors." The killing was reported on Sunday around 4:00 AM, when a call alerted authorities to a dead person with several gunshot wounds on PR-908, kilometer 9.9, in the Jagüeyes neighborhood of Yabucoa.
The victim was identified as Yaneris Crespo Vázquez, 36, whose body was found in the middle of the road and later identified by relatives. The Puerto Rico Police has reported 32 women killed so far this year, 10 of them intimate femicides committed by a partner or former partner.