Agent Juan Cotto-Santana

Juan Cotto-Santana

Agent Juan Cotto-Santana was shot and killed while intervening in a robbery at a store on Highway 174 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.

He shot multiple times after identifying himself as a police officer while he attempted to draw his weapon. The subject who shot him fled and remains at large.

Agent Cotto-Santana was on sick leave after having been shot in the shoulder during another robbery attempt in the same store one week prior.