The grieving dad of US tourist Kevin Mares — the New Yorker who was shot dead while on a trip to Puerto Rico for a Bad Bunny concert — spoke out on Monday for the first time since the tragic incident.

“It’s very hard,” a heartbroken Hector Mares told The Post. “Yesterday was a hard day. We’re still in pain. He was a beautiful person.”

Kevin Mares, 25, on Sunday was partying at a bar in La Perla, a shantytown on the outskirts of Old San Juan when shots rang out during a dispute — with the Queens resident and other bystanders hit by the bullets. 6

He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

“Preliminarily, it was a dispute that had nothing to do with this tourist which arose in front of this business in La Perla,” local police Sgt. Arnaldo Ruiz told Puerto Ri

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