[JoseQuinones]

Monday night at the Ernesto Ramos Antonini public housing project in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. 7 shot, 6 killed, including an innocent bystander.

Police recovered well over 1,000 spent shells. Anyone who carries knows what that represents in terms of money spent on ammunition. Really makes you wonder how "poor" these guys are and why they're living in free public housing.

[SimoneFlen']

The terrifying storm of gunfire broke out in the dark on Monday, piercing the early evening calm at a public housing complex near the University of Puerto Rico with hundreds of loud shots. Women screamed and dogs barked. After it was over, five people lay dead. A sixth person who was injured later died.

The shootout, its piercing sound captured on videos that were widely shared on social media, unnerved people in San Juan, the Puerto Rican capital, where the authorities have faced a rash of drug crime and other violence. The mass shooting on Monday, a holiday, came a day after two men were gunned down in broad daylight on the side of a busy highway in front of another public housing complex in what the police suspect was a drug-related double murder.

Gov. Wanda Vázquez held an urgent meeting of public safety administrators on Tuesday to review the violence over the long weekend and address broader concerns about the island’s stubbornly high crime rate, much of it attributed to gang violence.

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Elmer Román, the public safety secretary, said after the meeting that police presence would be stepped up at public housing complexes. Officers will be working 12-hour shifts so more of them can be on duty.

“We know we can’t keep doing more of the same,” Mr. Román said. “This has to end now.”

But he offered few details of what law enforcement would start doing differently and acknowledged that a shortage of police officers has not helped.

“I don’t want to offer excuses,” Mr. Román said. “These crimes, these sort of ambushes, are difficult to prevent in many circumstances, because I can’t have a cop on every corner.”

On Tuesday morning, more than 12 hours after the shooting at the Ernesto Ramos Antonini housing complex in the Río Piedras neighbourhood, the bodies of five of the people killed — four men and one woman — remained covered on the ground outside as the police gathered evidence on the scene. The bodies were removed by early afternoon.

The police had recovered more than 1,000 bullet casings of different calibres, including long guns, suggesting links to the illegal drug trade, Lt. José Cruz, director of the San Juan Criminal Investigations Bureau’s homicide division, told El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico’s largest daily newspaper.

Dennise Longo, the justice secretary, said she assigned three prosecutors to the site because there was so much evidence to process. She urged people with information about the shooting to cooperate with law enforcement.

Neighbours stayed indoors much of the day. Some of them said they were too scared to send their children to school, so they kept them home.

“I’m still overcome — it was horrible,” said Carmen M. Rivera Wilson, a 61-year-old retiree who has lived in the complex since she was 7. “Many massacres have happened here, but never like this. Five people? Never.”

When the gunfire began, Ms. Rivera said she hit the floor and hugged her dogs.

Her sister-in-law, Bilda Ortíz, 70, dropped by on Tuesday to see how Ms. Rivera was holding up. Ms. Ortíz used to live in the same complex and said she had fond memories of the place. But, she added, Monday’s shooting “was like Iraq or Syria.”

Henry Escalera, the police commissioner, said the shooting began shortly after 6:30 p.m. when a group of assailants arrived at the complex carrying long guns. The gunmen killed three men at a plaza in front of one building and another man and a woman some distance away.

The plaza had, at least at one point, been a local spot to buy drugs, according to Lieutenant Cruz, though the police have not yet determined whether the shooting was drug-related. One video showed several people wearing dark clothes shooting, muzzle flashes everywhere, and driving away in a pair of white cars.

Law enforcement officials identified the victims as Emmanuel Enrique Báez Padilla, 43; Jordan Junior Castillo Cordero, 25; Ángel Henríquez Agosto, 21; Kathia Matos Sandoval, 26; Alexis Antonio Padilla Rodríguez, 21; and Ermes Omar Sanjurjo, 25. Mr. Padilla Rodríguez died on Tuesday at a hospital. Mr. Henríquez Agosto had an outstanding federal warrant in connection with a morning shooting on Jan. 6 in which a man was killed in front of a nightclub in Isla Verde, near the San Juan airport.

[JoseQuinones]

I attended a volleyball tournament in this complex once. Most of the people are great, but you always get that "element" wherever you have a community of good-for-nothing young men who turn to drug trafficking for easy money. I say we make it illegal for men between the ages of 16 to 50 to be on the dole. Sure, help the women with kids and old people, but let the young men find a job or go hungry. My two cents.

[docfr8]

Viva Boricua

[kellyhound]

6 dead after firing 1,000 bullets. now that's what i call random shooting and in the end we'll see how many we took out.

[minka1]

So every single person involved in this massacre...were residents of this housing complex? And not just that, but you have proof that each male involved were/are living off the dole?

Please provide proof of everything you have stated.

And someone else saying 16 year old children shouldn’t be on the dole? This is 2019, not c1900 where orphan children were nothing more than work horses.

Some of you are just beyond my comprehension. Perfect Hypocrites.


Y’all are the same whones who’ll still shit on black and brown people, their whole families, parents and even their children, working multiple jobs, putting their kids thru school, paying bills, and some needing and using assistance...not taking gross advantage of it.
Just doing their best to survive and care for their loved ones...and all you need to hear is they are using some sort of govt assistance to prove that these are worthless people.

Sick fuckers. Nothing said when it’s white people abusing every privilege they have. Lol. From the stinking rich to the lowliest poorest gutter white...silence.

[b1gpoppa]

Originally Posted by minka1 ↗

So every single person involved in this massacre...were residents of this housing complex? And not just that, but you have proof that each male involved were/are living off the dole?

Please provide proof of everything you have stated.

And someone else saying 16 year old children shouldn’t be on the dole? This is 2019, not c1900 where orphan children were nothing more than work horses.

Some of you are just beyond my comprehension. Perfect Hypocrites.


Y’all are the same whones who’ll still shit on black and brown people, their whole families, parents and even their children, working multiple jobs, putting their kids thru school, paying bills, and some needing and using assistance...not taking gross advantage of it.
Just doing their best to survive and care for their loved ones...and all you need to hear is they are using some sort of govt assistance to prove that these are worthless people.

Sick fuckers. Nothing said when it’s white people abusing every privilege they have. Lol. From the stinking rich to the lowliest poorest gutter white...silence.

You and Ruthie7 ought to consider hooking up, and raising her son together .......... a nice lesbian couple, somewhere in a commune, hugging trees and riding unicorns, and trying to sell your homemade bead jewelry at sets of traffic lights somewhere down in your local skid row.

Seriously, can you just, like, you know, just go and fuck off ???

[b1gpoppa]

Good work on gathering all that other material Simone

[b1gpoppa]

Originally Posted by docfr8 ↗

Viva Boricua

What a Spic-tacular complex that must be to live in .........

[Suicide_Note]

Originally Posted by minka1 ↗

So every single person involved in this massacre...were residents of this housing complex? And not just that, but you have proof that each male involved were/are living off the dole?

Please provide proof of everything you have stated.

And someone else saying 16 year old children shouldn’t be on the dole? This is 2019, not c1900 where orphan children were nothing more than work horses.

Some of you are just beyond my comprehension. Perfect Hypocrites.


Y’all are the same whones who’ll still shit on black and brown people, their whole families, parents and even their children, working multiple jobs, putting their kids thru school, paying bills, and some needing and using assistance...not taking gross advantage of it.
Just doing their best to survive and care for their loved ones...and all you need to hear is they are using some sort of govt assistance to prove that these are worthless people.

Sick fuckers. Nothing said when it’s white people abusing every privilege they have. Lol. From the stinking rich to the lowliest poorest gutter white...silence.

I'm brown, and I say fuck all the people on welfare. They need put in their big boy/girl pants, get a job, and take care of themselves and their family without sucking on a government test to do it. Here's another tip: don't pop out kid after kid after kid when you're on welfare, either.