Death
Isabel la Negra was shot dead on January 4, 1974, an innocent bystander of a drug-related homicide. It occurred in one of her establishments. She was 72 years old. She was buried at Cementerio Civil de Ponce, a cemetery next to the historic Cementerio Católico San Vicente de Paul cemetery.
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