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Oscar Rubio's Assault Went Initially Unnoticed
posted (August 15, 2014)
Police currently have no suspect in another murder they are looking into - that of 38 year old Oscar Richard Rubio. Police didn't know he had been beaten and struck across the head until he died yesterday morning. But, that's because the officers who picked him up two weeks earlier on July 30th didn't bother to find out what was the matter. At 10:00 in the night, they responded to a call of a disturbance in the Conch Shell Bay area and found Rubio and another man laid out in nearby Constitution Park. The police who picked them up only thought they were drunk:..

Sgt. Isaias Sanchez, Precinct 1 - CIB
"Police at the time of assisting both male persons, Mr. Rubio was highly under the influence of alcohol that he could not express himself. I understand from the officers in question when they reach at the hospital there was no kind of conversation and actually after he got medical attention he was taken to the ICU where he remained until he succumb to his injury. Police so far have concluded that Oscar Richard Rubio was in the Conch Shell Bay area where he was approached by a male person and was attacked inflicting this head injury on him. So far we have two person in custody pending investigation. We still confirming and analyzing the investigation."

"I must say that this is a challenging investigation. It's the timing it happened, it has a crucial emphasis on it. I must say that nothing is heard - it's challenging, but I guess we are closing into the investigation at this time."

Police say if anyone in the public knows who struck Rubio, they can call the 922-TIPS line.

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