Murder at the Adjacency Zone in Toledo, One Woman Detained

A woman is in police custody tonight awaiting a charge of murder, following the stabbing death of Justo Martinez which occurred over the weekend at the Adjacency Zone in the Toledo District. According to police, the bus operator and her common-law husband were at an establishment in that area when they got into a misunderstanding.  Martinez reportedly attempted to part the couple and that’s when the encounter turned deadly. It is alleged that the woman broke a bottle and stabbed Martinez in the neck. Despite an effort to rush him to a medical facility in neighboring Santa Cruz, on the Guatemalan side of the border, Martinez would later succumb to the injury. Police say that the suspect fled the scene in a bus but was later apprehended and taken into custody.

ASP Fitzroy Yearwood

ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, BPD

“Sometime around three p.m., Toledo police responded to an incident at a cool spot located somewhere in the Adjacency Zone area where one Kent Chun, a bus driver of Jalacte was, how to say, involved in a scuffle involving two other persons, a female and a male. I cannot call their names because we don’t know which direction our investigation will take us but we know that the incident initially began between two bus operators that allegedly are common-law, in a common-law union, where they were fighting and we understand that Justo Martinez went to separate them in that fight. It is alleged that the female broke a bottle and stabbed Martinez in the neck. This is from what the report is giving us. We also gathered that Martinez’s relatives took him to a clinic somewhere on the Guatemalan side of the border where investigators learned that he succumbed to his injuries a little before three [o’clock] yesterday afternoon. The driver, the female driver, fled the scene in a bus but was later caught by Toledo police and she’s now detained pending this investigation.”