Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto Rico
End of Watch: Saturday, December 4, 1993
Age: 52
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: December 4, 1993
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: At large
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.