Overview

• Kevin Mares, 25, was shot in the abdomen in La Perla during a predawn dispute at a nightspot and later died at Puerto Rico’s largest public hospital while visiting for Bad Bunny’s residency.
• Officials have characterized Mares as an innocent bystander and say the San Juan homicide investigation remains at an early stage with no confirmed arrests.
• El Vocero reported that police detained Kenneth Giovanni Estrada Melendez on a separate drug warrant as the alleged intended target, but authorities have not verified the claim.
• Two local residents, siblings Miguel and Keila Melendez Beltran, were also wounded in the incident and remain hospitalized with nonfatal injuries.
• Mares’s family has set up a GoFundMe to bring his body home to New York and remembered him as a devoted son who planned to propose to his longtime girlfriend.