Hirohito Torres Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican farmer and father of 42 children, was shot and killed Sunday night in Maunabo, a municipality on the southeast coast of the Caribbean island, local police said Monday, El Nuevo Herald reported.
According to authorities, Torres Rodríguez, 83, was shot in different parts of his body, causing his death on the spot, in a residence on Highway 759 in the Palo Seco neighborhood of the aforementioned municipality.
Torres Rodríguez's story was reported in 2002 by EFE, to whom she said she had never married.
The farmer had two partners at the time, both sisters, with whom he had fathered 22 children, according to what he said at the time.
Torres Rodríguez claimed that he had had seven partners and 42 children in total.
Hirohito, whose name was given to him by his father in honor of the late Japanese emperor, said in the interview at the time that he studied until the fourth year of high school, but his cultural level is higher because he reads three newspapers a day, as well as books.
Torres Rodríguez, who owned construction machinery and land where he grew bananas, had his first child “almost when he was 17 years old.”
Among his children are a pilot, a teacher, an engineer, a chemist and a pharmacist, and he even built homes for some of them.
