A suspect has been apprehended for the brutal murder of 19-year-old Puerto Rican man Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado.
Mercado's body was found Friday, burned and decapitated. The suspect is a 27-year-old man from the interior Puerto Rican town of Cayey. Puerto Rican authorities are investigating whether Mercado's murder was a hate based crime.
Pres. Obama signed an expanded federal hate bill into law in late October that extends bias-based crimes to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
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