At Rest

Deadly force
Carlos Ortega, 38, shot and killed Rafael Jeffers, 33, the owner of The Bladi Style barber shop, before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer, who was getting his haircut by another stylist. Less than an hour earlier, he killed Javier Villegas Cotto and injured another, unnamed victim, in two separate attacks nearby. At 3:16 p.m., the unidentified officer was getting his hair cut when Ortega entered with a weapon and fatally shot the owner.
This record exists so that Carlos Ortega, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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