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| From left: Suspected shooter Guarionex Candelario Rivera, Luz M. Soto Segarra, Rosario Hernandez de Hoyos and Frank Roman Rodriguez. (Puerto Rico Police) |
An officer with the Puerto Rico Police
took two high-ranking officers and a policewoman hostage at police headquarters
in the city of Ponce on Monday morning, before shooting and killing them. Prior
to the shooting, the officers had engaged in a dispute. The
suspect, identified by police officials as Guarionex Candelario, held three
hostages – a female lieutenant, a male commander, and a female officer – in the
lieutenant’s office following an argument, police spokeswoman Mayra Ayala told
the Associated Press.
