Agent Héctor Luis Matías-Torres, Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto Rico

Agent Héctor Luis Matías-Torres

Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto Rico

End of Watch Thursday, September 21, 2017

Héctor Luis Matías-Torres

Agent Héctor Matías-Torres and Agent Ángel Lorenzo-González drowned when their vehicles were caught in floodwaters during Hurricane Maria.

Both officers were completing a 24-hour shift, at approximately 6:00 am, as part of the hurricane response and rescue efforts. They were attempting to get back to the police station when their vehicles were caught in high water and washed into the Culebrinas River, in Aguada, as they drove along PR-2. Their bodies were recovered the following day.

Agent Matías-Torres had served with the Puerto Rico Police Department for 22 years.

Bio

Age 53
Tour 22 years
Badge Not available

Incident Details

Cause Drowned

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I pray that everyone will find comfort in Revelation 21:4, where it says "And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away." Until we can see all of our loved ones again in Paradise, please accept my condolences.

A.W. Montgomery
Concerned Citizen

August 21, 2018