Cover-Up Over Killing of Gay Rapper Kevin Fret?

Rising gay rapper Kevin Fret was killed in a hail of bullets while riding his motorcycle in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in January 2019 — now, nearly four years later, a prosecutor says her supervisor told her to end her investigation into the killing of the 24-year-old.

Betzaida Quiñones Rodríguez claims then-chief prosecutor of the Puerto Rico Justice Department, Olga Castellón, shut down the Fret investigation just three months after the killing, NBC News reports. Rodríguez lays blame on not only Castellón, but the U.S. territory's secretary of justice at the time, Wanda Vázquez. Rodríguez says Castellón and Vázquez were in constant communication over the high-profile case.

Fret was an up-and-coming out rapper; his debut single, "Soy Asi," made traction in the music industry with the music video garnering nearly 6 million views.

Before his killing, Fret was accused of extortion by another musician, reggaeton star Jan Carlos Ozuna, known professionally as Ozuna. The latter musician claimed Fret received money in exchange for not releasing a sex tape of Ozuna's, allegedly made when he was a minor. Fret's mother, Hilda Rodríguez, claims Ozuna and his manager have something to do with Fret's death; she also says her son was not an extortionist. Ozuna denies having anything to do with Fret's killing.

Meanwhile, Hilda Rodríguez heralded the recent claims by Quiñones Rodríguez about the case.

"I knew this could come to light," Rodriguez said in a Spanish-language radio interview. "The two of them [Ozuna and his manager] have to pay for what they did."

It's not clear if Puerto Rican officials plan to reopen the case.

This is a developing story...