Legal Opinion
Velez-Diaz v. Vega-Irizarry
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 2, 2005No. 04-1773PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
This case concerns the tragic death of Antonio Vélez-García (“Vélez”), an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) cooperating witness, who was murdered by a gang member while assisting the FBI in a criminal investigation into Puerto Rico gang-related drug trafficking involving the use of firearms.
Vélez’s parents, Antonio Vélez-Díaz and Santa García-Hernández, his widow, Ya-haira Fajardo-Correa, and his minor daughter, Antoneeha Vélez-Fajardo (“Vé-lez’s relatives”), brought an action for money damages in the United States District Court for the District of…
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