A Puerto Rican man accused of killing three people in the U.S. Caribbean territory has been extradited from Massachusetts.
Puerto Rico’s Justice Department says Luis Emmanuel Sostre Piccinnini was extradited Sunday from a lockup in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he completed a six-month sentence for assault.
Sostre faces three counts of murder in Puerto Rico. Prosecutors allege he fatally shot three young men in the northern town of Vega Baja in February 2011 and fled the island.
The U.S. island of nearly 4 million people reported a record 1,117 homicides last year, surpassing the previous high of 995 in 1994.
