After a week since they murdered Alexa, the transgender woman whose body was found in Toa Baja, the director of the Bayamón Criminal Investigation Corps, Ricardo Haddock, said today, Saturday, that the Police do not have enough evidence to advance the investigation.
Although during the week the Uniformada arrested three people of interest in the case, Haddock confirmed The new day that this “did not lead to anything” and that they have no suspects either.
“We do not have anything. We have no suspects and all the help we can receive through the confidential line (787) 343-2020 will be attended ”said the captain.
Haddock said that, at the time of the interview, the Police have only received a confidence in this crime, but “did not throw anything specifically for the benefit of the investigation.”
To questions from this newspaper about whether they have supported the possibility of requesting the intervention of Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI), the captain replied that they were “working with federal and state agencies.”
“We don’t have mobiles to continue developing a research, we need more evidence”he insisted.
Their expressions contradict the spills this week by the Secretary of Public Security, Pedro Janer, who indicated in a television program that the police are working the case as a hate crime.
Neulisa “Alexa” Feliciano Ruiz was killed last Sunday night in a pasture in the PR-165 in Toa Baja, in the middle of a crime that was reported through social networks and that generated the circulation of a video that, Allegedly, it shows the time of the murder.
However, the video could not be validated by the authorities as it is directly related to the facts.
The new day He learned that the police concluded that the cost was edited to mislead the authorities, believing that the attackers were at a considerable distance from the victim, and thus be discarded as the perpetrators since 10 nine-millimeter calipers were found at distance between 10 to 12 feet from the body.
In the same way, sources allege that marks of a vehicle were found in a gazebo near where the body was recovered, which has led to the Police to theorize that individuals entered the field aboard a vehicle to approach the victim. That sequence of events does not appear in the video that went viral.
In the images you can see a tent and a person similar to Alexa, while several men yell at him in a misogynist and derogatory way. One of them said that “we are going to shoot you.” Then at least ten shots are heard.
One of the people of interest arrested this week by the Police, who was thought to be the one heard in the video, said that along with three other individuals shot Alexa with pellet guns.
However, preliminary investigation by the authorities establishes that 9 mm caliber pistol caps were occupied at the scene of the murder.
Precisely, the autopsy of the Bureau of Forensic Sciences confirmed that Alexa died as a result of several gunshot wounds. He was shot in the left side, left leg, back and one arm.
The crime report caused the governor Wanda Vázquez Garced Hold an emergency meeting with the high command of the Department of Public Security and the Puerto Rico Police Bureau.
After the meeting, Vázquez Garced offered a press conference in which he indicated that “no cell phone is discarded” when asked if the murder was the product of a hate crime. At the same time, he established that “the investigation is quite advanced.”
However, Haddock repeatedly said that they do not have enough material, but that “we will be investigating again what we have and we hope to receive confidences.”
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