Marco Rubio

According to Cuba, the passengers of the speedboat fired first.

The statement says that most of those on board the boat had a known history of criminal and violent activity.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S.

is gathering information to determine if the dead were American citizens or permanent residents.

So this morning we were made aware by Cuban authorities of an incident off the coast of Cuba.

We immediately began to look into it.

As it stands now, the Department of Homeland Security, the Coast Guard, others are involved.

The majority of the information we still possess is what Cuban authorities are providing both the public and the U.S.

government.

We have our embassy on the ground in Havana working this as we speak, asking for access to the people that were on those vessels if they were American citizens or permanent residents, according to the Cuban authorities.

regime.

The boat was registered in Florida.

We're tracking that down.

We will know shortly, and we will know quickly, many more facts about this incident.

The majority of the facts, we will verify that independently.

And as we gather more information, then we'll be prepared to respond accordingly.

I'm not going to speculate.

I'm not going to opine on what I don't know.

But we're going to find out exactly what happened here, and then we'll respond accordingly.

I'm not even going to speculate as to what it could have been.