The municipal interpreter Ozuna yesterday, Thursday, denied being related to the case of Kevin Fret Rodríguez, murdered in January 2019.
“I have nothing to do with the equation in general,” he said in response to questions from a reporter after a press conference in Mexico, where he promoted his new album “Cosmos.”
Ozuna, whose real name is Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado, was linked to the young man’s death because Fret Rodríguez allegedly threatened him with the publication of an intimate video. However, Ozuna has always denied being involved.
When asked by the Mexican press, he assured that these allegations did not affect him, repeating that he had “nothing to do” with the case.
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“I really can’t tell you what has affected me because I really can’t relate to these countless allegations because I have nothing to do with them,” he insisted.
10 photos Four years after the crime, no person has been arrested in connection with the murder and police investigations continue.For her part, Hilda Rodríguez, the mother of Fret Rodríguez, had accused the municipal exponent Ozuna and his henchman Vicente Saavedra of killing her son. In television interviews he had claimed that his son had fallen in love with Ozuna.
“(There is) a mother who is suffering. They killed my father, my grandmother suffered 25 years of grief, 30 years of grief. That has to be respected,” Ozuna said.
Fret Rodríguez – the first openly gay Latino ragamuffin – was shot dead on January 10, 2019 in Santurce at the age of 25. He lived in Miami and had traveled to Puerto Rico to spend a few days with his family. On the 15th, he would return to the United States to attend a court hearing as he was the victim of a violent attack by another man based on his sexual orientation.
It was only on November 2 that police and Justice Ministry personnel woke up in Santurce to confirm and compare the testimonies that had emerged about what may have happened when Fret Rodríguez was shot dead by unknown assailants.
Although four years have passed since the crime, the investigation is still unclear and no suspicious person has yet been arrested.
Prosecutor Betzaida Quiñones Rodríguez, who was initially in charge of the investigation, accused the then justice minister, former governor Wanda Vázquez, and senior prosecutor Olga Castellón of paralyzing this case and the death of lawyer Carlos Cotto in Cartagena. Former prosecutor Janet Parra also pointed out irregularities in the judiciary’s handling of this and other cases.
The case is now in the hands of prosecutor Edmanuel Santiago Quiles.