[1] Angel Castro Alifonso was suspected of stealing between $4.2 and $7 million dollars from a gang allegedly led by Edsel Torres Gomez.
[2] On March 13, 1994, he and three other people were intercepted by minions and Castro Alifonso was murdered on the spot by multiple gun shots.
The three others, identified by authorities as Edison Marrero Vazquez, Jose Manuel Alamo Diaz and Carlos Enrique Ortiz Feliciano,[3] were then driven to Caguas, where they were tortured and interrogated.
[4] The three victims who were murdered in Cayey were innocent bystanders; Castro-Alifonso had met with them to discuss buying real estate property.
[1] Another man, identified as Hector Ayala Adorno, who had been living in the United States since 1994 under the name of "Miguel Velez", was arrested in 1998 as a suspect of having actively participated in the massacre.