A woman from Philadelphia is mourning the loss of her fianc\u00e9 after he was killed in a shooting while they were on vacation in Puerto Rico earlier this month. <\/p>\n
The shooting happened around 2:12 a.m. on Jan. 3, 2026, as the couple was driving along Roosevelt Street and approaching Blanca Street in the Figueroa ward of Santurce in San Juan, police said. <\/p>\n
When officers got to the scene, they learned multiple shots were fired at the Kia Sportage the couple was in.<\/p>\n
The man, identified as 33-year-old Omar Padilla, was shot in the head and the woman with him, Kelly Crisp\u00edn, was hurt with gunshot wounds to her hand and shoulder, police reported. <\/p>\n
Padilla would later die at the hospital on Jan. 22. <\/p>\n
Fianc\u00e9 speaks out after deadly shooting<\/p>\n
Omar Padilla and Kelly Crisp\u00edn were visiting family and friends for the new year when they went out to dinner in a busy area of San Juan, Crisp\u00edn told NBC10. <\/p>\n
It was Friday night so the couple decided to park in an adjacent neighborhood about 10 minutes walk from where the restaurant was located, Crisp\u00edn recalled. <\/p>\n
After they returned to their car at the end of the night, Padilla was driving toward the highway, turned onto a street and that’s when they saw over a dozen men holding AR-15 style weapons, Crisp\u00edn explained.<\/p>\n
Padilla tried to drive away from the area as quickly as possible, but the group of men opened fire at their car so Crisp\u00edn said she called 911. <\/p>\n
All of a sudden, the car came to a stop and the men started pulling them out of the vehicle and searching through their things, Crisp\u00edn said. <\/p>\n
According to Crisp\u00edn, she started to hear the men realize they had made a mistake.<\/p>\n
“They started telling us, ‘You need to get out of here. Police can’t come here. They are not going to be able to help you.’ They even started telling us how to get out of the neighborhood,” Crisp\u00edn said.<\/p>\n
Later, Crisp\u00edn said that she realized that there is a police station less than one mile from where the shooting happened. <\/p>\n
“I felt like we were failed by the police there. That they didn’t protect us. That they didn’t protect Omar,” Crisp\u00edn explained. “No real progress has been made in the case and I just feel like if I don’t talk about this, if nothing is done, if people don’t care, that this could happen again to anybody else.”<\/p>\n
Crisp\u00edn said they were in a safe area of San Juan when she believes that she and Padilla were in the “wrong place, wrong time” as members of an apparent local gang ambushed the couple. <\/p>\n
“It was very obvious that if this was a trap, if it was an ambush or if it was an accident, either way, it wasn’t meant for us. We were the wrong target,” Crisp\u00edn told NBC10. “If just feels increasingly more like he died for nothing. They didn’t steal anything. They didn’t take the car. They just killed him and nothing happened. Like, nothing will happen to them.”<\/p>\n
The San Juan Criminal Investigations Corps is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman from Philadelphia is mourning the loss of her fianc\u00e9 after he was killed in a shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,1471],"class_list":["post-99239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}