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Boxer Charged in Killing of Pregnant Woman Found in Puerto Rican Lagoon

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The Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo Sánchez turned himself in to law enforcement officials on the island on Sunday evening and is facing charges of killing a pregnant woman whose body washed up in a lagoon on Saturday, the authorities said.

According to a federal complaint, Mr. Verdejo, a lightweight boxer who represented Puerto Rico at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, is accused of punching the woman, injecting her with “substances,” tying her body to a block and throwing her from a bridge into the water.

The woman, Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz, disappeared on Friday.