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Name Date Location Deaths Notes Río Piedras massacre: 1935-10-24 Río Piedras: 5 [1]Ponce massacre: 1937-03-21 Ponce: 21 [2]Utuado uprising: 1950-10-30 Utuado
The killing of Adolfina Villanueva Osorio occurred on 6 February 1980 at Tocones, Loíza, Puerto Rico. Villanueva Osorio, an Afro–Puerto Rican woman born c. 1946, was shot dead as police attempted to evict her family from their home. The house was quickly demolished and at trial, a police officer was found not guilty of shooting her.
The 2023 Carolina, Puerto Rico, massacre took place on July 25, 2023, when five youngsters, four of them teenagers from the southern city of Guayama, were murdered and their bodies were found in barrio Martín González, [1] in the northern city of Carolina and in neighboring Loíza. [2]
The Puerto Rico Department of Justice no longer considered Marrero Rivera a suspect on March 9, 2015, five years after the murder. Luis Gustavo Rivera Seijo "El Manco" – A homeless one-armed man (missing left forearm) with a previously-diagnosed mental disorder, who grew up in Dorado del Mar, the same neighborhood where the González Cacho ...
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Puerto Rico's murder rate dropped somewhat from the 1990s into the 2000s, yet violent crime remained significantly higher not just at a regional but also on an international scale. In the mid-2000s, the territory's troubles ranked it sixth worldwide in murders per capita. [2] In 2006, a total of 736 individuals were murdered in Puerto Rico. [3]
This is a list of mass or spree killers in the Americas (excluding the United States). A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves.
Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero ran a series of articles about the massacre during 1998. Luís Rivera Newton was sentenced to life in prison for the killings. [ 1 ] Another man, identified as Hector Ayala Adorno, who had been living in the United States since 1994 under the name of "Miguel Velez", was arrested in 1998 as a suspect of having ...