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Two 19 Year Old's Fight, One Left Dead
posted (July 17, 2019)

And between that murder of the 52 year old taxman and the 53 year old clothing vendor, a 19 year old was killed.

Just before 6:00, Honduran immigrant Nixon Matapinto, got into a dispute with fellow 19-year-old construction worker Jovi Hernandez at the Western Avenue bus stop on the George Price Highway.  

That escalated into an altercation where Hernandez stabbed him to the right side of the chest with an unknown object. Matapinto's died from the injury - and Hernandez has been detained. 

The cops told us today that this killing may have some gang connection:

ASP Alejandro Cowo - OC, CIB Belize City
"About 6 p.m., police visited the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where upon arrival; they observed the motionless body of a Hispanic male person with an apparent stab wound to the body. The male was not identified at the moment, and what police gathered so far is that the male person was somewhere in the burial ground, where he had an altercation with another male person, and as a result of that altercation, the male person suffered a stab wound to the body. This morning, at 8 a.m., the body was identified by a family member as that of a Honduran National, Nixon Obiniel Matapinto, 18 years-old, of a New Road address."

Reporter
"Have you been able to establish the nature of the dispute?"

ASP Alejandro Cowo
"Yes, that is an ongoing feud that is amongst a group in the Antelope Street Extension."

Reporter
"This particular young man, is he caught up in that particular feud, or was he simply targeted for living in a specific part of the city?"

ASP Alejandro Cowo
"This incident is related to several other incidents that happened already in that area, involving other members of that group in that area of Antelope Street Extension."

Matapinto's family declined comment.

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