2023-11-12 10:16:00
LARES – A 50-year-old housewife was shot to death at 10:29 pm yesterday, Saturday, by her 54-year-old partner, who later took his own life, in a small house under construction in the neighborhood. Callejones, in the second feminicide that occurred in 15 hours, which brought the number of women murdered in cases of gender violence to 16 during 2023, an increase of three compared to 2022.
The victim was identified as Maribel Vega Santiago, who had a seven-year relationship with the perpetrator Wenceslao González Morales, who worked as a truck driver in the municipality of San Sebastián. The gun, for which González Morales had a license, was seized at the scene.
Lieutenant Leonel Romero, director of the Criminal Investigation Corps (CIC) of Utuado, said this morning that the couple had no previous incidents of gender violence. They had a relationship of around seven years, which they began while they lived in the United States and regarding two years ago they returned to live in Puerto Rico. They had no children in common.
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Her husband, municipal employee Andrés Kennedy Albert Amador, 48, called the police and was arrested at the scene. He also had a license to carry the pistol he used. It is anticipated that he will be charged today.
As of midnight Saturday, police had reported 407 murders, a decrease of 98 compared to last year.
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At the end of June, Governor Pedro Pierluisi had extended the state of emergency due to gender violence for an additional period of six months. On that occasion, he issued a statement pointing out that “with the state of emergency we have instituted transformations in the management of this social evil and its multiple manifestations. Such initiatives have been implemented and integrated as public policy in Government agencies and campaigns have been developed and other tools to educate for the prevention of gender violence.”
The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (IEPR) reported at the end of April that, according to data from various authorities, from 2021 to 2022, femicides with firearms on the island increased from 61% to 77% and by June, according to the Puerto Rico Gender Equality Observatory, in 2022 a total of 62 femicides were recorded, both direct and indirect, of which 14 were classified as intimate.
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