US tourist killed and burned in Puerto Rico
Tariq Quadir Loat was reported missing after he and a friend were attacked in Old San Juan, police said.
Loat’s pregnant girlfriend reported him missing after he and a friend, 23-year-old James Jackson, were attacked and beaten in the La Perla neighbourhood of Old San Juan.
Puerto Rico Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa stated over the weekend, saying the two tourists were attacked "after buying illicit drugs and trying to take photos in the place," according to the newspaper El Vocero de Puerto Rico.
López Figueroa said the two Americans "ignored the warning not to take photographs at the site, which led to an altercation." He said Loat and Jackson were attacked with including an exercise weight, a piece of wood and a deep fryer on Saturday.
While Jackson managed to escape into a local store and ask for help, he became separated from Loat, local news outlet La Primera Hora reported.
The body discovered Saturday had burns to 70% of it and a tattoo on a forearm similar to markings to 24-year-old Tariq Quadir Loat of Wilmington, who was reported missing.
Loat's family arrived in Puerto Rico on Monday to determine whether it was his body that was found, according to the paper and was identified on Tuesday.
It´s rare for tourists to be killed in Puerto Rico, an island of 3.3 million people that last saw a record number of killings nearly a decade ago. The last tourist to be reported killed was a 39-year-old man from Denver, Colorado, who police say was thrown from an SUV and run over in San Juan in February 2020.
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