And while that locksmith was stabbed in Corozal, a housewife was beaten to death in Cayo. 64-year-old Angela Flores Rodriguez was trying to help her daughter, who had gotten in a fight with her common-law husband. But what she didn't expect was that he would come charging towards her with a weapon, beating her and her two daughters. And while the two young women are still alive, their mother succumbed to her injuries. Rodriguez's husband saw when everything unfolded, and Courtney Menzies has the story.
Three women suffered various degrees of injuries from a man armed with a steel pipe in San Ignacio on Monday night. One of them - the mother - passed away yesterday.
According to police, the assailant, 59-year-old Merecedez Pais, otherwise known as Rudy, started beating his common-law wife, 27-year-old Roxana Garcia, her sister, 20-year-old Emerita Flores, and their mother, 64-year-old Angela Flores Rodriguez.
Rodriguez's husband told our colleagues at Plus TV that Garcia and Pais were always fighting, but this time, it got murderous.
Alejandro Garcia Rodriguez, Husband of Deceased
"(Spanish) Rudy Pais is the husband of my daughter, he has always had problems and problems. He's always fighting with my daughter. They fight over the business. They were never okay. I used to see him come around and listen to what's happening. He was always hiding behind the house, trying to listen to what we are talking about. It's all about jealousy problems."
"She was cooking downstairs with the fire hearth and then she went to look for her son and when her husband saw her coming, he went up as well and it's just fighting and fighting. When I heard my daughter screaming, my wife went upstairs and he was coming down and he pushed her. And hit her with a firewood in her back. When I came out and see what was happening, she was already unconscious in the middle of the street. I couldn't help her. I asked her where is kukulik when I noticed, he came racing out with a steel in his hand. With that he hit my daughter and my wife as well."
Rodriguez said that Pais wasn't always aggressive, but he noted a significant change after the assailant and Garcia were together for a while. Now, Pais has been arrested and charged for grievous harm, but his charge is likely to be upgraded.
The accused, Mercedes Pais turned himself into. Police after the beating.
