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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 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.
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
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The 2009 Sabana Seca massacre, also referred to as La Masacre de La Tómbola, was an incident that occurred on October 17, 2009, in Puerto Rico related to drug trafficking. Eight people were killed by gunmen in a car, who shot randomly in a bar in the Sabana Seca barrio of Toa Baja , 15 miles from San Juan .
The Masacre de Cayey or Cayey Massacre, was the murder of four people on March 13, 1994 at various locations in Puerto Rico. Because three of the four victims were killed in Cayey the local press called it the Masacre de Cayey (Cayey Massacre).
The Cerro Maravilla murders, also known as the Cerro Maravilla massacre, [3] occurred on July 25, 1978, at Cerro Maravilla, a mountain in Ponce, Puerto Rico, [1] [2] wherein two young Puerto Rican pro-independence activists, Carlos Enrique Soto Arriví [a] (born December 8, 1959) and Arnaldo Darío Rosado Torres [b] (born November 23, 1953), were murdered in a Puerto Rico Police ambush.
The Disappearance of John and Giannina Colonna is an ongoing missing children's case that has baffled international authorities since it took place, in Puerto Rico in 1974. [1] Even as the case took place five decades ago, international agencies such as the Interpol are still involved trying to solve it.