New York Man Fatally Shot While In Puerto Rico For Bad Bunny Concert Remembered As Inspiration

A New York man who was fatally changeable successful Puerto Rico's La Perla vicinity successful San Juan connected Sunday is being remembered by his loved ones arsenic a beloved son, friend and inspiration to each who knew him.

Kevin Mares, 25, was visiting nan land pinch friends to be a Bad Bunny concert. On Sunday, Mares was retired erstwhile a fewer group began to conflict crossed nan street, his father, Hector Mares, told NBC New York.

"Somebody sewage a weapon and commencement shooting, and unluckily they deed my boy successful nan abdomen," Hector Mares said.

Mares was an guiltless bystander caught successful nan crossfire of nan shooting, according to Homicide detective Sgt. Arnaldo Ruiz. He was taken to a infirmary wherever he was pronounced dead.

Mares' decease has near his family wholly devastated and successful shock.

"My son, everybody loves him, everybody," Hector Mares told NBC New York. "He was doing bully astatine school, he was working. When he came location from work, he started taking attraction of his, his pets, and he loves cooking."

The past clip he saw his boy was correct earlier he near for Puerto Rico.

"We say, 'Goodbye, return care, spot you soon, we're gonna miss you,'" Hector Mares said. "We never, ne'er expect that was going to beryllium nan past clip we spot him."

Mares' mother, Sandra Mares, was successful disbelief erstwhile she was told of her son's passing.

"We couldn't judge it," she told NBC New York successful Spanish. "We thought it was a joke."

Sandra recalled spending weekends pinch her son, erstwhile nan family would get together to grill hamburgers and hotdogs, aliases singing karaoke.

Now, each Mares' parents want is for their son's assemblage to beryllium brought backmost to New York. They started a GoFundMe to thief them pinch assemblage transportation and funerary expenses.

The family remembered Mares arsenic "a profoundly loved son, devoted friend, and a root of inspiration to everyone who knew him," who had a agleam early up of him.

"His wholehearted kindness, adventurous spirit, and unwavering committedness to family made him a pillar of spot for his loved ones," his family said connected nan GoFundMe page.

Mares was readying to propose to his woman of six years this fall, according to his family.

"Family was astatine nan halfway of everything he did, and his abrupt passing has near an unfillable void successful our lives," nan family said.

The investigation into nan shooting that killed Mares is ongoing.