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Demonstrators demand justice in Puerto Rico gay teen's slaying

Several hundred gay activists rallied Thursday afternoon in Puerto Rico to appeal a able-bodied case in the barbarous annihilation of a gay jailbait about a anniversary ago.Juan A. Martinez Matos was answerable at a audition Wednesday with first-degree annihilation and three weapons violations in affiliation with the killing of 19-year-old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado. The teen's decapitated, burst and partially austere anatomy was begin Friday afternoon on a alley in axial Puerto Rico. Bail has been set at $4 million, cloister abstracts show.The annihilation has reverberated through the gay and lesbian association in Puerto Rico and the United States, area supporters started a Facebook folio alleged "Justice for Jorge Steven Lopez -- End Abhorrence Crimes." The accumulation demands an analysis by Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno and case of the case beneath the federal abhorrence abomination law.