Another urban music singer is shot to death in Carolina

CAROLINA – Lewis Pérez Conteras, an exponent of urban music known artistically as Young Bladewas shot to death at 7:35 p.m. on Friday in front of a school on 10th Street of the Jardines de Country Club urbanization, a short distance from 11th Street, where on December 19 he was shot to death on Emerging urban singer Jethzaniel Rosario Brito, better known as Jehza.

Young Blade was 27 years old and was living in the United States, and making trips to the Dominican Republic, where he had been recording with young reggaeton players from the neighboring country.

He was in Puerto Rico visiting relatives and making arrangements for his artistic career. She had recently undergone bariatric surgery and had wedding plans for next November.

In October 2019, he participated in the video “Mantecado de coco” with Nio García, Arcángel and Bryant Myers.

On Friday night, a call through the 9-1-1 Emergency System alerted the Police to detonations on 10th Street and the agents arrived at the scene, finding the lifeless body of Young Blades, and wounded, outside danger, to the young Christian Flores, 18 years old. Both were next to a gray 2022 Acura MDX bus.

Agent Pedro Molina, attached to the Homicide Division of the Carolina Criminal Investigation Corps (CIC), together with prosecutor Zulmarie Alverio, took charge of the investigation.

A few steps from the place, Jehza was shot to death on the night of December 19, 2021. Jehza was 32 years old.

Another exponent of urban music, Francisco Santiago Serrano, artistically known as “Cano el Bárbaro” was murdered on December 17 while driving a Can-Am in Humacao.

The rag picker Kevin Fret was shot to death in the early hours of January 10, 2019 in Villa Palmeras and his case is not being investigated by the Police. Agent Tito Rivera, from the Homicide Division of the San Juan CIC, was transferred to a “task force” of federal agencies and the case has not been assigned.

In the case of Kevin Fret, investigators have achieved little or nothing to track down the killers, and those listed as the suspected perpetrators have been killed.

Different versions under investigation pointed to the currently imprisoned Vladimir Natera Abreu, head of the FARC drug organization, participating in an alleged conspiracy to assassinate the artist who was beginning to take off in the world of urban music.

Kevin Fret had allegedly told several relatives of an alleged romantic relationship with the urban artist Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado, known in the entertainment world as Ozuna.