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Puerto Rico Police Department (Puerto Rico) While on duty, Candelario Rivera shot Commander Frank Román Rodríguez, Lieutenant Luz M. Soto Segarra, and Agent Rosario Hernández de Hoyos, all of whom were also members of the Puerto Rico Police Department. Candelario Rivera was sentenced to more than 200 years in prison. [65] 25 November 2015
v. t. e. The Ponce massacre was an event that took place on Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, when a peaceful civilian march turned into a police shooting in which 17 civilians and two policemen were killed, [ 6 ] and more than 200 civilians wounded. None of the civilians were armed and most of the dead were reportedly shot in ...
e. The 1954 United States Capitol shooting was an attack on March 1, 1954, by four Puerto Rican nationalists seeking to promote Puerto Rican independence from the United States. They fired 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols onto the legislative floor from the Ladies' Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber ...
The Cerro Maravilla murders, also known as the Cerro Maravilla massacre, [3] occurred on July 25, 1978, at Cerro Maravilla, a mountain in Ponce, Puerto Rico, [1] [2] wherein two young Puerto Rican pro-independence activists, Carlos Enrique Soto Arriví [a] (born December 8, 1959) and Arnaldo Darío Rosado Torres [b] (born November 23, 1953), were murdered in a Puerto Rico Police ambush.
t. e. On November 1, 1950, Puerto Rican pro-independence activists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman at the Blair House during the renovation of the White House. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Both men were stopped before gaining entry to the house. Torresola mortally wounded White House Police officer Leslie ...
The Bayamón Police Region is the Puerto Rico Police Department region for the western San Juan Metropolitan Area and the one half of northern Puerto Rico. It is composed of the towns of: Cataño , Corozal , Dorado , Guaynabo , Naranjito , Toa Alta , Toa Baja , Vega Alta , Vega Baja and Bayamón .
In the morning of November 29, 1995, García was allegedly working in a coffee plantation in the Castañer ward of Lares, Puerto Rico. Police arrived at 7:20 am and Officer Luis Rosa Merced of the Puerto Rico Police Department shot the notorious criminal in the genitals. According to the police report, García resisted the arrest and tried to ...
According to police estimates, 28 people were killed and 50 were wounded in the uprising, including in Utuado and elsewhere in Puerto Rico. 16 Nationalists, 8 police officers and soldiers, and 4 civilians were killed. After the Nationalists were forced to surrender, the Puerto Rican government arrested thousands of people supporting independence.