Father of Kevin Mares, NYC man shot lifeless in Puerto Rico, breaks silence: ‘We’re nonetheless in ache’
The grieving dad of US vacationer Kevin Mares — the New Yorker who was shot lifeless whereas on a visit to Puerto Rico for a Dangerous Bunny live performance — spoke out on Monday for the primary time for the reason that tragic incident.
“It’s very exhausting,” a heartbroken Hector Mares advised The Submit. “Yesterday was a tough day. We’re nonetheless in ache. He was a gorgeous particular person.”
Kevin Mares, 25, on Sunday was partying at a bar in La Perla, a shantytown on the outskirts of Previous San Juan when photographs rang out throughout a dispute — with the Queens resident and different bystanders hit by the bullets.
He was rushed to an area hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless.
“Preliminarily, it was a dispute that had nothing to do with this vacationer which arose in entrance of this enterprise in La Perla,” native police Sgt. Arnaldo Ruiz advised Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Dia information outlet.
Mares was in Puerto Rico together with his longtime girlfriend, Angy Nicole Arguello, for a Dangerous Bunny present, a part of the rapper’s 30-day residency on the Caribbean island.
In keeping with his household, Mares had deliberate to suggest to his girlfriend of seven years.
“I’m simply devastated,” Arguello advised the Each day Information. “Like, I can’t imagine it. I’m in denial.”
She added: “Each time he’d stroll right into a room, it might mild up … And he was actually a real, reliable particular person. Any downside that I had, he all the time had my again.”
Arguello took to Instagram to submit shifting memorials to her slain beau.
“My love, I really like you,” she wrote. “I miss you a lot. Why, God, did you are taking him away from me?”
The slain man’s father has now arrange an internet fundraiser on GoFundMe.com to assist elevate funds to convey Mares’ physique again to the Large Apple, with the positioning elevating greater than $31,000 by noon Monday.
“The wound may be very recent,” Mares’ cousin, who recognized herself solely as Christina, advised The Submit. “We simply need the physique to come back house. That’s what we’re working for.
“The household’s exhausted,” she stated. “As of now they wish to discover out what’s the method, what’s with the felony a part of it, why aren’t they releasing the physique? The household simply desires the method to hurry up.”
— Extra reporting by Kevin Sheehan
