Last year on May the fifth, 30-year-old Adonai Espat was brutally assaulted on a Mayan mound at the Santa Rita Temple Site outside of Corozal Town. He was chopped numerous times to the head and chest and staggered the 400 yards to his home where he collapsed in front of his family.
The attack happened at 10:30 at night, and he died 5 hours later while undergoing surgery at the Orange Walk Hospital. Now 9 months later, police have charged Darwin Salazaar, a 22 year old of Gosito Layout in Corozal Town for the murder.
How did police find him 9 months later? Well it turns out, Salazar was the witness to a serious stabbing in Sarteneja over the weekend. And when he was taken in for questioning, police realized that his nickname matched the one that was given in connection to the Espat stabbing 9 months earlier. Police used that and other clues from the scene of the May 2006 murder to build up the case to charge Salazar for murder.
Salazar becomes the first person Corozal police have charged for murder in months as there have been no murders in that town for half a year.
