A 24-year-old man was shot dead by masked gunman who barged into his home in Puerto Rico while he was streaming live on Facebook.
Julio César Castillo was singing and drinking from a bottle in the living room of his residence in the Carolina housing development on Monday at 7:13pm when the assailant fired at him five times
The Dominic Republican native got up from his couch and ran to another side of the apartment before he tripped and fell.
The shooter subsequently came into the view of the camera and let off a flurry of shots before he ran out of ammunition and reloaded.
Julio César Castillo was going through his cellphone before he was shot, an incident that was captured live on Facebook
A 17-year-old, who was in the apartment at the time, was seen running towards a room and at one point was shot.
Footage shows Castillo, apparently wounded from the gunfire, crawling on the ground when the killer walked over and continued to fire at him before fleeing.
Castillo was rushed to the Puerto Rico Medical Center in San Juan, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 am Tuesday.
A homicide detective with the Puerto Rico Police’s Criminal Investigations Corps told DailyMail.com that the teenage boy was recovering from a single gunshot wound at a hospital in Rio Piedras.
The agent was unable to confirm if the teen was related to Castillo.
The killer remained on-the-run as of Wednesday afternoon.
According to Dominican Republic digital news out La Colonia El Cedro Miches, Castillo had reportedly fled to Puerto Rico on a raft several months ago after allegedly killing a young woman in the Miches neighborhood, La Boca del Río.
Miches, a city in the province of El Seibo, is located 109 miles northeast of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Caribbean nation.
The detective could not confirm if Castillo was wanted for murder.
DailyMail.com reached out to the Dominican Republic National Police for comment.
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