Orange Walk police responded to a Monday morning in San Lazaro Village, where they responded shortly before 10:00 to reports of a fatal chopping. Officers found the body of 68-year-old Virgilio Carrillo, a watchman of San Lazaro, lying face down on a sugar road about a quarter mile off the main road leading to the river.
His family says that he left home en route to his farm, but was brutally chopped and left to die in a cane field. ASP Romero gave us more details on the murder in San Lazaro.
ACP Hilberto Romero, HNCIB
"Then this morning around 9:30 Am police were called to San Lazaro where information was received that a body had been found, police went to the area near a cane field road where they saw the lifeless body of a male person identified as Virginio Carillo 68 years old he was observed with several chop wounds, police are presently processing the scene at this time."
"No criminal background No"
Reporter:
"Motive?"
ACP Hilberto Romero:
"We do not know at this time the information just came in this morning and we are dealing with it."
Reporter:
"Do you believe alcohol may have been involved?"
ACP Hilberto Romero:
"Not that we know he left from his work place and he was going to his farm."
ACP Hilberto Romero:
"Somebody who was going to one of the cane fields saw the body and he called the police."
