A 20-year-old Cuban girl arrived in the US two months ago through the border with Mexico and was seriously injured by a gunshot by some thieves last Saturday on a street in the northwest of Miami He died after almost a week in a hospital, local media reported this Friday.
Bertha Angelyne Ruiz’s family released the news of her death at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where the young woman had been admitted on November 26 in critical condition with a gunshot wound entering the left jaw that affected her spine. at neck level.
#FLORIDA | The young Cuban Angelyne Ruiz died in #Miami on the night of Thursday, December 1, after remaining at Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical condition due to the serious gunshot wounds he suffered on November 27 https://t.co/FSCeCdVVbz
– Diario Las Americas (@DLasAmericas) December 2, 2022
The young woman, a native of Santa Clara, arrived in Miami with her mother after a long road trip a little over two months ago in search of the “American dream”, according to the media.
Bertha Angelyne Ruiz was shot in the face last Saturday while waiting for a bus at a bus stop near the house where she lived with the relatives who took her and her mother, Arletys Vázquez, in.
The mother had spoken this week with various media to ask for help from the community to find the perpetrator or perpetrators of the attack on her daughter.
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“I have two months of having arrived from Cuba. I came across the border with my girl, everything was very difficult. Thank God we were here, thinking that he had brought her to the country of opportunities, for a better future for her and look at what they have paid me with, ”Arletis Vásquez lamented in a statement collected by Univision 23.
The Police asked whoever has information about this case to contact a special telephone line.
