A young Cuban resident in the state of Arizona, in the United States, died last Saturday, allegedly due to a accidental shooting that was inflicted on him by another person, according to preliminary reports.
The victim has been identified as Susel Borges Castillowas 22 years old and was from Moa, Holguín. According to crime reporter Niover Licea, he had been in the United States for five to six months and He left a three-year-old girl in Cuba.
Licea said that the circumstances in which the Cuban woman lost her life have not been clarified. According to his sources, One version of the events indicates that “a friend’s husband was playing with a firearm and, unfortunately, it went off.”but this information has not been confirmed.
“The truth is that today a Cuban family is crying, and has many questions and concerns” about the incident, said Licea, who lamented the loss of the young woman.
A person who identified herself as the victim’s mother in the comments section of the channel Youtube of the communicatorspoke out about the tragic event. “I just hope that the full weight of the law falls on him. He took my daughter away from me just for a game, but I don’t believe it,” said Suyen Castillo Navarro..
The identity of the man who fired the gun and killed the Cuban woman has not yet been revealed. The incident is under investigation by the authorities, and other details about the case are unknown.
Cubans who have emigrated to the United States in recent years, in the context of the largest migratory exodus in the history of Cuba, have been victims of crimes or fatal accidents.
In early July, a brutal femicide claimed the life of a Cuban woman in the city of Irving, Texas. Sucel Gomez42 years old and originally from the Cueto municipality, in Holguín, was stabbed to death by her ex-partner.
Yuniesky Díaz Gómez, 38 years old and from Herradura, Pinar del Río, died after being run over by his girlfriendduring an argument outside his home in Lexington, Nebraska.
