Jealousy crimes are not unusual in the DR, but the yesterday murder of a teacher, Adelaida Perez and the principal, Porfirio Jerez Vega, of the school where she worked was one of the worst many can remember. The murders occurred at the school where the two victims worked and were witnessed by students. Reportedly, the professor visited the Escuela 24 de Abril near San Francisco de Macorís, on the northeast of the country, to seek reconciliation with his former spouse, a teacher at the school. When this was not possible, he shot her five times. When the principal of the school tried to intervene, he also received three shots. The insane man fled and an hour later was found hanging from a cacao tree in the Paraje Sonador, near where he committed the murders. He is believed to have committed suicide.
