Verdejo, a boxer who represented Puerto Rico at the 2012 Olympic games, abducted Rodríguez, 27, and threw her off a bridge in San Juan in April 2021.
Puerto Rican boxer Felix Verdejo surrendered to the federal authorities in Puerto Rico in May 2021.“In my mind I thought many things, but not in my heart. I got up every day to come here with the purpose of making her count,” he continued.
“I have always said that he will live the rest of his life thinking about what he did to my daughter, and that is his worst condemnation.” “I do not wish him death,” he said. “I wish him good health and that he can last as long as he can last. If he wants to last 200 years, let him last, but that he remembers what he did to my daughter, always.”Instagram/Felíx VerdejoVerdejo allegedly injected Rodriguez with an unknown liquid and tied her feet and arms to a block during the slaying.and fired shots from a gun into the water where she was submerged.Verdejo’s sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 3.
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