Police recover murder weapon used to kill Anthony Matura

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There’s another family grieving tonight. On Wednesday afternoon eighteen year old Anthony Matura was killed as he alighted a bus in Ladyville. Anthony was returning home from Belize City he was attacked and stabbed in the chest.  He ran a few feet to another lane and died in the vicinity of the Ladyville Police Station before help could reach him. As we told you on Thursday night, Anthony is the brother of Glenford Matura, who was also murder earlier this year on March tenth. Police today have not been able to confirm the motive for the murder but it is believed that it has to do with the ongoing violence among gangs. The suspected murder weapon, however, has been recovered. News Five’s Marion Ali has been following this story since Thursday and files this report.

Marion Ali, Reporting

While police have not yet made any detentions into the stabbing murder of eighteen year old Anthony Matura, they have now secured the weapon believed to have been used in the homicide.

Sgt. Fitzroy Yearwood, Police Press Officer

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“Investigations reveal that Matura just exited a bus on Poinsettia Street on the Northern Highway and apparently somebody delivered a stab wound to his left chest area.  It is believed that he ran from that area to where he collapsed and later succumbed to his injury.  I know that this morning officers revisited the scene where they found a blade believed to have been used in this murder.”

But while the incident happened in broad daylight and on a busy thoroughfare, police press officer, Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood says they need the public’s help to solve this mystery.

Marion Ali

“His attacker, was this person on the bus as well or did he lay-wait him from the street?”

Sgt. Fitzroy Yearwood

“Marion, so far we are not sure.  We believe that there are witnesses out there that can help us with this.  We keep appealing to the public, we ask for their assistance with anything that would help us, even if you don’t want to identify yourself, give us some way that we can identify this would be assailant. We need to bring some closure to it and we can only depend on the assistance of the public.”

Matura travelled to Belize City regularly with his father and police cannot say if his murder was the result of an old conflict.  While the motive also remains a mystery, his grandmother, Doreen Gibson told News Five that she tried to avoid his killing.

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Doreen Gibson, Grandmother of Murder Victim

“Ih noh talk. Dah wah child weh no tell yoh nothing. If he and anybody di have any beef you would ah neva know because ih noh talk. Dah noh wah talkative person. Ah seh unu come up dis side wid me and unu only go up dah town when unu need to, when ih necessary. And dat dah mi di way how we does work it; dehn only go down dah town when ih necessary, ih stay up yah wid me. Everybody deh up yah wid me, di five girls and two boys except fi Anthony now.”

Reporting for News Five, Marion Ali.