"While some four hundred dancers recoiled in horror, a girl was shot and mortally wounded and her male escort also wounded in the Porto Rico Club, a dance hall at 100 West 116th street, last Saturday night. The shooting, beleived to have been the result of a jealous quarrel, is said to have been done by Joseph Lubriel, 26, of 7 West 112th street. He was locked up in the West 123rd police station on a charge of felonious assault. The girl, Mercedes Merlander, 21, 1 East 112th street, was shot in the back and abdomen and is said to be dying in Harlem Hospital. Her escort, Joseph Vasquez, 44, 145 East 116th street, is also in the hospital suffering from bullet wounds in the left wrist and thigh."