A federal decide on Monday ordered Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo held with out bail after he was charged within the demise of his 27-year-old pregnant lover whose physique was present in a lagoon.Verdejo is charged with kidnapping and carjacking ensuing within the demise of Keishla Rodríguez and with deliberately killing an unborn little one. He didn’t make any feedback throughout Monday’s digital listening to by which he relied on a translator.”This can be a demise penalty-eligible case,” stated Decide Camille Vélez.A felony criticism filed by the FBI accuses Verdejo of punching Rodríguez within the face and injecting her with a syringe stuffed with an unidentified substance purchased at a public housing advanced. It alleges he then certain her arms and ft with wire, tied a heavy block to her earlier than throwing her off a bridge at 8:30 a.m. Thursday after which shot at her physique.The criticism says an unidentified witness helped Verdejo kidnap and kill Rodríguez.The U.S. authorities has 30 days to current the case to a federal grand jury; in the meantime, a date for Verdejo’s subsequent listening to has but to be introduced.Rodríguez, who was reported lacking on Thursday after she did not present up for her job at an animal grooming enterprise, was present in a lagoon close to the U.S. territory’s capital on Saturday. Officers recognized her Sunday by way of dental information.Verdejo and his attorneys beforehand declined remark, and police stated the boxer didn’t initially cooperate and refused to reply questions.Rodríguez’s household stated she was pregnant with Verdejo’s little one. Keila Ortiz, the sufferer’s mom, advised reporters that her daughter known as on Thursday and advised her Verdejo was going to her home to see the outcomes of a being pregnant check.”I advised her, ‘Watch out,’ as a result of he had already threatened her,” Ortiz stated. She stated Verdejo had advised her daughter to not have the newborn, mentioning his profession and household.Verdejo is married and has a younger daughter however had identified Rodríguez since center college and maintained a relationship together with her, her mother and father stated.Verdejo (27-2, 17 knockouts) represented Puerto Rico on the 2012 Olympics and have become knowledgeable boxer that yr, competing within the light-weight division. His profession was quickly sidetracked after he was hospitalized following a 2016 motorbike accident.The case has outraged many in Puerto Rico, the place one other lady was not too long ago discovered burned to demise after she filed a home violence criticism {that a} decide dismissed. A Superior Court docket decide has introduced an investigation into that call.Lots of of individuals gathered Sunday at a bridge that crosses the lagoon the place Rodríguez’s physique was discovered to demand justice for her and different girls killed, with some throwing flowers into the water beneath.
A federal decide on Monday ordered Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo held with out bail after he was charged within the demise of his 27-year-old pregnant lover whose physique was present in a lagoon.
Verdejo is charged with kidnapping and carjacking ensuing within the demise of Keishla Rodríguez and with deliberately killing an unborn little one. He didn’t make any feedback throughout Monday’s digital listening to by which he relied on a translator.
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“This can be a demise penalty-eligible case,” stated Decide Camille Vélez.
A felony criticism filed by the FBI accuses Verdejo of punching Rodríguez within the face and injecting her with a syringe stuffed with an unidentified substance purchased at a public housing advanced. It alleges he then certain her arms and ft with wire, tied a heavy block to her earlier than throwing her off a bridge at 8:30 a.m. Thursday after which shot at her physique.
The criticism says an unidentified witness helped Verdejo kidnap and kill Rodríguez.
The U.S. authorities has 30 days to current the case to a federal grand jury; in the meantime, a date for Verdejo’s subsequent listening to has but to be introduced.
Rodríguez, who was reported lacking on Thursday after she did not present up for her job at an animal grooming enterprise, was present in a lagoon close to the U.S. territory’s capital on Saturday. Officers recognized her Sunday by way of dental information.
Verdejo and his attorneys beforehand declined remark, and police stated the boxer didn’t initially cooperate and refused to reply questions.
Rodríguez’s household stated she was pregnant with Verdejo’s little one. Keila Ortiz, the sufferer’s mom, advised reporters that her daughter known as on Thursday and advised her Verdejo was going to her home to see the outcomes of a being pregnant check.
“I advised her, ‘Watch out,’ as a result of he had already threatened her,” Ortiz stated. She stated Verdejo had advised her daughter to not have the newborn, mentioning his profession and household.
Verdejo is married and has a younger daughter however had identified Rodríguez since center college and maintained a relationship together with her, her mother and father stated.
Verdejo (27-2, 17 knockouts) represented Puerto Rico on the 2012 Olympics and have become knowledgeable boxer that yr, competing within the light-weight division. His profession was quickly sidetracked after he was hospitalized following a 2016 motorbike accident.
The case has outraged many in Puerto Rico, the place one other lady was not too long ago discovered burned to demise after she filed a home violence criticism {that a} decide dismissed. A Superior Court docket decide has introduced an investigation into that call.
Lots of of individuals gathered Sunday at a bridge that crosses the lagoon the place Rodríguez’s physique was discovered to demand justice for her and different girls killed, with some throwing flowers into the water beneath.
