{"id":149257,"date":"2025-08-16T01:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149257\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:17:11","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-puerto-rico-killing-of-new-york-man-who-visited-island-for-bad-bunny-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149257\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in Puerto Rico killing of New York man who visited island for Bad Bunny concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Suspect arrested in shooting death of NYC man in Puerto Rico <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/651dd8868f3237c5420f68bd7baec5e4.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/suspect-arrested-in-shooting-death-of-nyc-man-in-puerto-rico\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Suspect arrested in shooting death of NYC man in Puerto Rico<\/p>\n<p>          00:30<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 37-year-old man with a criminal record turned himself in to police on Friday and was charged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-tourist-killed-puerto-rico-la-perla-bad-bunny-residency-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">in the recent killing of a tourist<\/a> from the U.S. mainland who had flown to Puerto Rico for Bad Bunny&#8217;s residency.<\/p>\n<p>Kalel Jorell Mart\u00ednez Bristol faces charges including first-degree murder, according to a statement from Puerto Rico&#8217;s Justice Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police have said the 25-year-old victim, Kevin Mares of New York, was an innocent bystander when he was struck by a bullet early Sunday while at a nightspot with friends in the seaside community of La Perla.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kevin-mares-crop.png#.png\" alt=\"kevin-mares-crop.png \" height=\"457\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  New York City resident Kevin Mares, 25, was struck by a stray bullet and killed while on vacation in Puerto Rico on Aug. 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                Sandra Mares<\/p>\n<p>Authorities accused Mart\u00ednez Bristol of pulling out a gun and firing it while arguing with people near Mares. Two people, a brother and a sister who live in La Perla, were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorney Pedro Rivera told reporters that he was &#8220;very surprised&#8221; authorities didn&#8217;t file attempted murder charges, saying that casts doubt over the entire case.<\/p>\n<p>Mart\u00ednez Bristol is being held on an $800,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>The community of La Perla is located on the outskirts of Old San Juan and once served as Puerto Rico&#8217;s biggest distribution point for heroin. It became popular with tourists after Puerto Rican singers Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featured the community in their hit &#8220;Despacito.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But isolated violence persists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In February 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tourists-stabbed-puerto-rico-la-perla\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">three tourists were stabbed<\/a> after police said a person told them to stop filming inside the community.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in April 2024, a 24-year-old tourist from Delaware was killed and his body set on fire after police said he and a friend were attacked following a drug purchase. Police said the victims were trying to take pictures of La Perla after being warned not to do so. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in shooting death of NYC man in Puerto Rico Suspect arrested in shooting death of NYC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,71844,9620,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,45546,101,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-149257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bad-bunny","10":"tag-murder","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-puerto-rico","18":"tag-shooting","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115035809032164006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}