(What YOU can expect, from YOUR EQUALS ! - CDH) Puerto Rico fears post-Maria murder surge: 11 days, 32 slain

DANICA COTO
Associated PressJanuary 11, 2018

A forensic worker lifts a a body at a crime scene, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018 . As the island struggles to recover from Hurricane Maria, it is facing one of the biggest spikes in violent crime in nearly a decade amid a widespread power outage, severe unemployment and an increase in police absences. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
A forensic worker lifts a a body at a crime scene, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018 . As the island struggles to recover from Hurricane Maria, it is facing one of the biggest spikes in violent crime in nearly a decade amid a widespread power outage, severe unemployment and an increase in police absences. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico (AP) — Before the sun rose on the first day of 2018, someone called 911 to report the charred, bullet-riddled body of a man with a snake-like tattoo on his left hand, lying beside a road in the Puerto Rican town of Vega Baja.

The next day, two men were found dead with their feet and hands bound in Bayamon, a working-class city southwest of the capital. Another man was shot to death before dawn in nearby Vega Baja while trying to stop thieves from stealing his generator.

Thirty-two people have been slain in Puerto Rico in the first 11 days of the year, double the number killed over the same period in 2017. If the surge proves to be more than just a temporary blip, January could be the most homicidal month on the island in at least two years, adding a dangerous new element to the island's recovery from Hurricane Maria, its worst disaster in decades.   https://www.yahoo.com/news/puerto-rico-fears-post-maria-193855975.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/puerto-rico-fears-post-maria-193855975.html