Police are also asking for help from the public in locating the main suspect in the murder of 25 year-old Guatemalan Rene Arturo Perez. He was found chopped to death last week Friday in the Trio Village, near to the banana farm that he works.
The last time he was seen alive, he was with one Donaldo, on Thursday night. He left his employer's banana farm, and on the next, day, his body was discovered.
The officer commanding ISF told us today that this Donaldo, a Guatemalan who is still believed to be in the country, is their main suspect because they found evidence which suggests his involvement:
Superintendent Alton Alvarez - Officer Commanding, Intermediate Southern Formation
"On Thursday sometime around 8:30am Independence police received information with regards to a body that was found in the Trio area; that would be 5 miles east of Trio Village; that's on the Southern Highway leading towards from where we are at heading towards the Toledo District. This body was discovered by a concern citizen within that area. He is the farm owner in that area and he has called the police with respect to information. The police responded and came upon the body of one Rene Arturo Perez, 25 years old. He is a Guatemalan national. Apparently he has been working within that area as the assistant to that farmer that had called."
"Police arrived at the scene and they observed that the body had received multiple chop wounds. The police had in fact process the scene and the investigation continues with regard to that matter."
"We know that the deceased was with another male individual sometime around 8pm the night before he was found in that condition."
Mike Rudon, Reporter Ch 5
"Were they socializing in the village? What has the preliminary investigation turn out?
Superintendent Alton Alvarez
"There is no evidence at this time that they were socializing. In fact the port mortem examination is not completed as yet and as soon as that is done, we will be better able to say."
Police say that they found a shirt in the main suspect's house which had on what they believe to be blood from Rene Perez. The shirt had one of the sleeves ripped off, and investigators found a piece of black cloth at the crime scene, which they believe to the very same missing sleeve.
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