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3 unusual facts about Antonia Martínez


Antonia Martínez

A year after her death, University of Puerto Rico Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadet Jacinto Gutierrez was killed while defending the Reserve Oifficers' Training Corps building at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.

Police agents questioned by the Judiciary Committee of the Puerto Rico Senate concerning the investigation of the Cerro Maravilla murders case, revealed a cover-up by the Puerto Rico Police during the murder of Antonia Martínez Lagares, admitting that in order to cover up the case, a police officer who had nothing to do with the shooting was accused of it so he would be acquitted during the trial and put the matter to rest.

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The song "Antonia murió de un balazo" is about the murder of student Antonia Martínez by a police officer during the 1970 riots at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras.



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