Published on Nov 20, 2014
Two men have been arrested and charged with first degree murder in the killings of a retired U.S. army sergeant and three of his family members in Puerto Rico.
Sixty-seven year old Miguel Ortiz Diaz, his wife and his mother-in-law were fatally shot at their home in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico late Monday, Fox News Latino reported.
The assailants kidnapped Ortiz’s two sons after the shooting and took them to a field in Guaraguao neighborhood where the elder son was shot to death, El Comercio reported.
The assailants reportedly ran out of bullets when they tried to kill Ortiz’s younger son. So they stabbed him and threw him over a bridge, according to El Comercio. Miraculously, the 13-year-old boy survived the attack and later sought help.
Police said the murders were carried out by people who were renting a house from Ortiz and were facing eviction after they failed to pay rent, Fox News Latino reported.
Police In Puerto Rico Investigate Murder Of Military Family
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SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Police in Puerto Rico are investigating the execution-style murders of a retired U.S. Army officer and three members of his family during a Monday night attack on their gated suburban community home, officials said.
A suspect was in custody and police said the killings may have been in reprisal for an attempt to evict tenants from a rental home the family owned.
Police identified the victims as Miguel Ortiz Díaz, 66, his wife Carmita Uceda Ciriaco, 45, his mother-in-law Clementina Ciriaco López, and his 15-year-old son Miguel Ortiz Uceda.
Another 13-year-boy, also a son of the victims, survived and is under police protection and receiving medical care, Police Superintendent Jose Caldero said in a radio interview.
The murders were the seventh multiple killing in Puerto Rico this year, police said.
The attack took place in the gated Frailes community of Guaynabo, just west of San Juan.
The suspect in custody was arrested early Tuesday in Bayamon, where Ortiz Diaz’s rental house is located, according to police.
Caldero described the crime scene as “macabre,” saying Ortiz Diaz, who retired from the U.S. Army as a sergeant first class, was gagged and shot to death against a sofa in the living room, while the two women were made to kneel down nearby and then shot.
Police believe the suspects attempted to kill the minors as well, but kidnapped them when their weapons failed. Caldero told reporters that the older son was killed in transit and his body dumped by the side of a road.
The attackers apparently ran out of bullets when attempting to kill the 13-year-old boy, he said, so they beat him and then threw him off a bridge, leaving the boy for dead.
The boy survived, managing to alert a neighbor and then police about what had occurred.
(Reporting a Reuters correspondent in San Juan; Editing by Dan Grebler)
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2 Charged in Killing of 4 Relatives in Guaynabo
Two men have been charged with fi rst-degree
murder in the killings of a retired Army sergeant
and three other family members, police
said Thursday.
Christopher Sánchez Asencio and José Bosch
Mulero, both 27, also face nearly 40 other counts,
including aggravated kidnapping of a minor and
destruction of evidence.
They were being held on $8 million bond
each.
The victims include 67-year-old Miguel Ortiz
Díaz, his wife, a 15-year-old son and his motherin-law.
They were fatally shot late Monday at their
home in the upscale city of Guaynabo, southwest of
the capital of San Juan. Police said a 13-year-old son
survived after being stabbed and thrown off a bridge
in the neighboring municipality of Bayamón.
It is unclear whether the suspects have attorneys,
although Bosch spoke briefl y to reporters on
Wednesday after he was arrested.
“To the boy who survived, I am truly sorry for
what happened,” he said.
Police have said they believe Ortiz was killed
by people who were renting a house he owned and
were facing eviction because they had fallen behind
on the rent.
The 13-year-old boy remains hospitalized and
is expected to recover as government offi cials debate
who should obtain custody of him. His mother
and grandmother had Peruvian citizenship, and
family members in Peru have expressed interest in
bringing him to the South American country.
Isadora Hernández, a spokeswoman for Puerto
Rico’s Department of State, said in a phone interview
that two Puerto Ricans have off ered to pay for
the fl ights and hotel of the victims’ family members
who live in Peru.
Ortiz had been a professor for nearly 20 years
at Puerto Rico’s American Military Academy, where
his sons also were enrolled.
The murders were the seventh multiple killing
in Puerto Rico this year, police said.
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A retired Army sergeant and three members of his family including a teenage son have been fatally shot to death in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, police said Tuesday. The victims include 66-year-old Miguel Ortiz Diaz, his wife, their 15-year-old son and Ortiz's mother-in-law, police officer Maritza Ramos said.
Two men were jailed in Puerto Rico on Wednesday on charges of killing a retired U.S. Army sergeant and three members of his family, as well as attempting to kill the victims' 13-year-old son by beating him and throwing him off a bridge. A Bayamon judge set the bail for Christopher Sanchez Asencio, 27, and Jose Bosch Mulero, 26, at $8 million after authorities charged each with first-degree murder in the attack at the victims' home on Monday night, police said.
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