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Gun Battle in Puerto Rico Housing Project Leaves Six Dead
- Killings are latest in series of crimes to shock commonwealth
- Though murders are down overall, in the capital they’ve risen
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The death of six people after a furious gun battle at a housing project on the outskirt of Puerto Rico’s capital Monday night was the latest in a series of dramatic public crimes that have shaken the Caribbean island.
The firefight that began just after nightfall sent residents of the Residencial Ernesto Ramos Antonini housing complex in the San Juan suburb Rio Piedras fleeing indoors and cowering in their apartments as intense, sustained automatic weapons fire echoed around the squat buildings. Video of the exchange shared on social media seemed more reminiscent of the narco wars familiar in parts of Mexico than a placid Caribbean island.