ANDRES LAZA-CARABALLO

Juncos Municipal Police Department

BIO
Age 31
Tour 10 years
Badge Not available

INCIDENT DETAILS
Cause Gunfire
Weapon Rifle
Offender Shot and killed

Police Officer Andres Laza-Caraballo was shot and killed while intervening in a shooting incident while off duty at approximately 1:30 pm.

He was patronizing a barber shop on Calle Emilia Príncipe when several men started smoking marijuana in front of it. When the shop owner asked the men to leave he was attacked. Officer Laza-Caraballo identified himself as an officer and attempted to intervene when several of the subjects entered with rifles and opened fire.

Officer Laza-Caraballo was able to return fire, killing one of the men and wounding a second one before being fatally shot. The remaining two subjects fled the scene and remain at large. Three of the men, including the two who Officer Laza-Caraballo shot, were brothers.

Officer Laza-Caraballo had served with the Juncos Municipal Police Department for 10 years. He is survived by his two children.

Please contact the following agency to send condolences or to obtain funeral arrangements:
Juncos Municipal Police Department
PO Box 1706
Juncos, PR 00777
Phone: (787) 321-8684

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