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OPENLY GAY RAPPER MURRED PUERTO RI AMID WAVE OF VLENCE

San Juan, Puerto Ri — One of the few well-known openly gay rappers Puerto Ri has bee a victim of tensifyg vlence on the Fret, a 24-year-old mician and outspoken advote for the LGBT muny, was murred early Thursday morng Santurce, one of San Juan's bit and most nsely populated neighborhoods, acrdg to El Vocero, one the largt newspapers Puerto said a man was shot eight tim around 5:31 a. The sger and rapper, who dubbed himself the first openly gay Lat trap artist, was murred  Puerto Ri Thursday morng. The sger and rapper, who dubbed himself the first openly gay Lat trap artist, acrdg to Billboard, was fatally shot and killed Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Ri Thursday morng.

“RIP to the credibly talented Kev Fret, the first openly gay Lat Trapero om Puerto Ri. 10, 2019Kev Fret, a Puerto Rin social media star who billed himself as the first openly gay Lat trap artist, was fatally shot San Juan early Thursday, acrdg to the police and lol news Fret, 25, was ridg on a motorcycle the Santurce neighborhood at about 5:30 a.

Fret “Lat trap’s first openly gay pneer. “Young gay guys or young lbians that are lookg at me now like a role mol, like wow, if he did , and he don’t re what anybody else has to say, I n do . “Kev Fret reprented a rehg view a mic genre that is very homophobic and very machista, ” he Fret ed the braggadoc and performativy of the genre to make the se for clivy, Mr.

GAY LAT MIC STAR KEV FRET, 24, SHOT AND KILLED PUERTO RI

Fret had rpond forcefully after he was the target of homophobic threats the lyrics of a rival artist, which left some qutng whether his killg had been motivated by police were searchg for another man on a motorcycle who was wh Mr. Lat trap sger Kev Fret, creded for beg the genre’s first openly gay artist, was shot and killed on Thursday, January 10th the Santurce neighborhood San Juan, Puerto Ri.

KEV FRET, OPENLY GAY LAT TRAP ARTIST, IS SHOT AND KILLED PUERTO RI

The song featured homophobic slurs and flammatory vers about Anuel’s llaborator-turned-nemis Cosculluela — implyg a homosexual relatnship between his rival and Fret.

At the time, Fret took to social media to lambast Anuel and urbano artists at large for their unchecked homophobia, urgg artists to stop g the gay muny as punchl their songs. STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Activist attribut ill will toward gays to some relig, polil lears' "hate rhetoric"Puerto Rin gay muny wants police to see if slayg was a hate crimeFBI is monorg vtigatn and is prepared to offer help, agent saysSpect, 27, was to attend Tuday urt hearg, which was postponed several tim (CNN) -- A spect has been arrted the slayg of a 19-year-old Puerto Rin man found Friday pated, dismembered and partially burned, police said Tuday.

Gay muny are askg thori to vtigate whether the slayg was a hate crime bee the victim, Je Steven Lopez Merdo, was gay, said Pedro Jul Serrano of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force. "The btaly of the slayg and the fact that he was openly gay leads to believe was very possibly a hate crime, " Serrano said.

DEATH OF GAY TRAP STAR KEV FRET HIGHLIGHTS CRISIS PUERTO RI

The slayg has reverberated throughout the gay and lbian muny the Uned Stat, where supporters started a Facebook page lled "Jtice for Je Steven Lopez -- End Hate Crim. Gay activist Serrano said he do not believe anti-gay sentiment is any stronger Puerto Ri's Lat culture than anywhere else. "That's a long-bunked myth, that our culture is more homophobic, " Serrano said.

SPECT ARRTED BTAL SLAYG OF GAY MAN PUERTO RI

Instead, he attributed any ill will toward gays to "hate rhetoric" by some relig and polil lears. One polician, he said, recently referred to gays as "twisted and mentally ill.

" "That's the kd of rhetoric that c vlence agast gays, " Serrano said.

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Spect arrted btal slayg of gay man Puerto Ri.

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