And the city's only weekend murder that wasn't committed with a gun - happened in a Belize City hotel room on the northside - and the victim was a softball umpire visiting from Independence Village.
Allin Anthony Portillo was in town for a ladies softball tournament and was staying at the Bayview Guest House. But he didn't show up for the game on Saturday morning, and around noon on Saturday, a cleaning lady at the guest house found him dead in his room. Police told us more:.
ASP Alejandro Cowo
"Making checks inside room number four they discovered the body of a male person who was covered with a blanket. Upon inspection of the body he was observed to have his hands tied up to the front and both of his feet were also tied up. Inside of the room was kind of ransacked, however we could not determine if anything was stolen from inside of the room. What police have gathered so far is that this male person was later identified as Alin Anthony Portillo a Belizean security guard of Independence Village. What we know so far is that Mr. Portillo had left on Friday from Independence and arrived here in Belize City to have a softball game on Friday. On Saturday, he went and booked a room at the hotel and thereafter on Saturday later on his body was found by one of the maids of the guest house."
Jules Vasquez - Reporter
"There were no signs of forced entry? Is the suspect someone whom he had allowed, consented or invited into his room?"
ASP Alejandro Cowo
"That is one of the possibilities that we are investigating at this moment. As you had rightly mentioned there was no forced entry into the room."
Reporter
"Was any sign of violence noted on the body?"
ASP Alejandro Cowo
"No signs of violence."
Jules Vasquez
"No signs of violence and a postmortem will have to determine."
ASP Alejandro Cowo
"The postmortem was conducted a while ago and the cause of death was manual strangulation."
Police have a suspect they can make out on the security camera, but they have not identified him yet.
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