{"id":501211,"date":"2026-02-28T20:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/man-shoots-himself-in-the-head-in-barahona\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:17:41","slug":"man-shoots-himself-in-the-head-in-barahona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/man-shoots-himself-in-the-head-in-barahona\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shoots himself in the head in Barahona"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Barahona, RD.<\/strong> \u2013 A man lost his life on the afternoon of this Saturday in an event that occurred in the El Alfa sector, in this southern province.\n\nThe victim was identified as Rafael Santana Beltr\u00e9, 51 years old, who resided in the area where the incident occurred. According to preliminary reports, the man had used a firearm of his own.\n\nUnofficial versions indicate that he was going through a depressive episode. However, the circumstances of the event are being investigated by officers of the Southern Regional Sub-Directorate of the Department of Criminal Investigations (Dicrim) of the National Police, in order to clarify what happened and determine responsibilities, if any.\n\nThe body was transferred to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif) for the corresponding legal procedures.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/An\u00edbal D\u00edaz Belliard supervises areas affected by rains in Gaspar Hern\u00e1ndez and Sabaneta de Y\u00e1sica\">http:\/\/An\u00edbal D\u00edaz Belliard supervises areas affected by rains in Gaspar Hern\u00e1ndez and Sabaneta de Y\u00e1sica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barahona, RD. \u2013 A man lost his life on the afternoon of this Saturday in an event that occurred in the El Alfa sector, in this southern province. The victim was identified as Rafael Santana Beltr\u00e9, 51 years old, who resided in the area where the incident occurred. According to preliminary reports, the man had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[40762],"class_list":["post-501211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dominican-news","tag-man"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26o3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}