SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Former Puerto Rican boxer Felix Verdejo was once discovered responsible Friday on two fees homogeneous to the demise of a 27-year-old pregnant lady.
The decision got here upcoming a 25-week trial by which the jury heard unfortunate information about the April 2021 killing of Keishla Rodríguez that stunned the U.S. space.
The jury convicted Verdejo at the rate of kidnapping that ends up in a demise and one depend of inflicting the demise of an unborn kid. The 12 jurors may no longer succeed in unanimous verdicts at the rate of intercepting and stealing a automobile with the repercussion of inflicting a demise or the rate of sporting a weapon to devote a violent crime.
U.S. District Pass judgement on Pedro Delgado Hernandez poised a Nov. 3 sentencing consultation, at which Verdejo may face a penalty of as much as while in jail.
Federal prosecutors relied at the testimony of greater than 30 crowd, together with key eyewitness Luis Antonio Cádiz, a chum of Verdejo who additionally was once charged within the case. He pleaded responsible ultimate yr upcoming attaining a plea do business in with prosecutors however hasn’t been sentenced.
Cádiz testified that Verdejo had harassed Rodríguez to get an abortion sooner than she was once killed.
He testified that the presen of the killing, Verdejo punched Rodríguez and injected her with a substance that Cádiz believed to be heroin sooner than they each fasten her limbs to a cement prevent and threw her off a hectic bridge in large sunlight.
A pathologist testified that Rodríguez, 27, was once nonetheless alive when she was once thrown into the lagoon underneath the bridge.
Cádiz mentioned he made an nameless 911 name days upcoming to grant the positioning of Rodríguez’s frame.
An post-mortem enthusiastic Rodríguez had fentanyl and xylazine, a sedative old for horses and alternative animals, in her machine.
Her demise outraged many in Puerto Rico who hold difficult that government do a greater process of defending home violence sufferers.
Verdejo represented Puerto Rico on the 2012 Olympics and turned into a qualified boxer that yr. He completed his profession within the light-weight section with a 27-2 file, with 17 knockouts.
