No arrest has been made yet in the Thursday evening murder of Lurlene Young on Caye Caulker. Young’s throat was cut during a home invasion robbery on Thursday around 5 pm inside her home on the island.
Evidence suggests Young’s killer followed her home from her job as manager at the Tropic Air Office and seized at the opportunity to enter her home when she went to the bathroom. She was then attacked in bathroom and was stabbed in the throat twice. Her husband Charles Young Sr. found her still barely alive a few minutes after but she later died. A post mortem certified her cause of death as asphyxia due to partial decapitation of the neck. Robbery appears to have been the motive.
It was Caye Caulker’s first murder in more than a decade and the most vicious killing in recent memory. And that is why villagers are taking matters into their own hands. You heard their complaints Friday about the lack of police presence and action on the island. The Neighbourhood Watch Committee has planned a “March Against Crime” protest for Thursday afternoon.
But it isn’t just walking. In a press release today, the Neighbourhood Watch Committee restated its demand to the Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries and Area Representative Manuel Heredia Jr. to replace all the police officers assigned to Caye Caulker.
