The police stated they had categorized the fatalities as a dislike crime following the stays of two female happened to be found in a poorly burned vehicles last week.
Each week following the bodies of two transgender women were within a terribly burned car in Puerto Rico, the authorities said Thursday that they had arrested two boys regarding the the killings along with transformed them to the F.B.I.
The males, Juan Carlos Pagan Bonilla, 21, and Sean Diaz de Leon, 19, had been used into guardianship on Wednesday but have maybe not started energized, relating to Capt. Teddy Morales, the chief of unlawful research for any authorities in Humacao, on Puerto Rico’s east coast, where in fact the women’s keeps comprise entirely on April 22.
He stated the F.B.I. had absorbed the situation and got examining Mr. Pagan Bonilla and Mr. Diaz de Leon for possible civil-rights violations.
“We are classifying it as a dislike criminal activity since they are interacting aided by the subjects, as soon as they discovered these were transgender lady, they made a decision to kill them,” head Morales mentioned on Thursday.
Law enforcement stated these people were looking forward to autopsy brings about determine how the ladies was basically slain. Activists have identified the ladies as Layla Pelaez, 21, and Serena Angelique Velazquez, 32, two company who stayed in New York City. Her keeps are found after one known as 911 to submit a burned car under a bridge on a desolate road in Humacao, just before 5 a.m. on April 22, head Morales stated.