In year’s 5th femicide, man kills woman, commits suicide

Rebeca Rivera López (Facebook)

By THE STAR STAFF

Authorities on Sunday were investigating a femicide and suicide that occurred around 6 p.m. Saturday inside an apartment in Building 10 of the José Celso Barbosa residential complex in Bayamón.

According to preliminary information, a call to the 911 Emergency System alerted police to two people with gunshot wounds. Upon arriving at the scene, police found the body of Rebeca Rivera López, 42, inside the apartment with a gunshot wound.

The assailant, identified as Moisés Amed Rivera Rodríguez, 29, took his own life at the scene after committing the crime, the fifth recorded case of femicide this year.

Agents from the Homicide Division of the Bayamón Criminal Investigation Unit and prosecutor José Diaz Cabán took charge of the investigation.