Boxer Felix Verdejo Arrested For Carjacking Double Murder of Pregnant Girlfriend (Not His Wife) in San Juan

Light-weight Felix El Diamante Verdejo Arrested For Carjacking Double Homicide of Pregnant Girlfriend (Not His Spouse) in San Juan

By Robert Brizel, Head Actual Fight Media Boxing Correspondent

 San Juan, PR (Could third, 2021)–“Justice for my daughter. Murders!” screamed Keisha Ortiz, mom of the deceased lady, after her daughter’s physique was discovered floating in San Jose Lagoon in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The sufferer’s mom in Orlando, Florida, informed reporters her daughter referred to as her simply earlier than she disappeared Thursday, and acknowledged her boyfriend Felix Verdejo was in path to her home to see the blood outcomes of a brand new being pregnant check. She by no means referred to as again.

Puerto Rican light-weight contender Felix “El Diamante” Verdejo-Sanchez has been arrested along side the carjacking, kidnapping, punching drugging, and double murdering his pregnant girlfriend Keishla Rodriguez Ortiz and their unborn little one on Sunday Could 2, 2021. The data was launched by the Division of Justice, United States Lawyer’s Workplace, District of Puerto Rico.

Verdejo, 23-2 with 17 knockouts, San Juan, Puerto Rico, final appeared within the ring on December 12, 2020, at The Bubble, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, when he fought for the World Boxing Organisation Inter-Continental Light-weight title in opposition to Masayoshi Nakatani and misplaced by stoppage within the ninth spherical, regardless of knocking Nakatani down twice.

Verdejo, who’s married with a spouse. had beforehand threatened Miss Ortiz. Her mom acknowledged “I informed her (to) watch out as a result of he (Verdejo) had already threatened her, and informed her to not have the child, mentioning his (concern of dropping his) profession and his household.” Verdejo had identified Rodríguez since highschool, and their relationship had continued regardless of his marriage.

A prison criticism filed by the FBI accuses Verdejo of punching Keishla Rodríguez within the face, then injecting her with a syringe stuffed with an unidentified substance, purchased at a public housing advanced. It alleges he then certain the arms and toes of his girlfriend with wire, and tied a heavy block to her earlier than throwing her off Teodoro Moscoso Bridge in San Juan at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Could 1, 2021. The criticism additional states Verdejo then shot at Rodríguez’s physique as he stood on the bridge. Verdejo’s kidnapping and killing of Miss Ortiz was aided by an confederate who remains to be at massive and is sought. Movies taken close to the bridge recognized the car of Verdejo and his license plate on the scene when the physique was tossed.

Workplace Assertion After The Tragedy by Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi

Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi acknowledged “It’s essential we keep this present degree of consideration to the crime of gender violence that’s so misplaced, consternation and anguish it brings to our society. There needs to be little doubt we’re in a state of emergency as a result of gender violence. We’re all united in prayer, so the victims of this critical social evil have the peace that was stolen from them throughout their lives, in order that their households have the consolation and power they should overcome this tragedy, so these crimes don’t go unpunished, and we are able to eradicate the causes which promote and permit this violence (to happen). The ache, anger and indignation we really feel, each time we witness against the law of gender violence, must be stored alive in us ,so we don’t relaxation in our accountability to guard, forestall and abolish this evil, in addition to to do (understand) justice for all of the victims. On daily basis, we (will) proceed working to create a society which values life, respects human dignity, and rejects violence in all its kinds. Now we have to battle this battle till we win it.”

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