Argument Ends with Stabbing in Maskall

Alejandro Cowo

An argument between two friends on Sunday night in Maskall Village has left one man hospitalized. Police say that sometime before eleven o’clock, Samuel Torres was walking in the village when he met a friend; the men got into an argument and Torres was stabbed twice. He is in a stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. ASP Alejandro Cowo shares more about the stabbing incident.

ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City

“Police responded to the K.H.M.H. where they observed twenty-year-old Samuel Torres of Maskall Village suffering from apparent stab wounds to the left side of his chest. He was admitted in a stable condition. He is still there. What police have gathered so far is that sometime around eight in the night he was walking on Kiskadee Street in Maskall Village when he met a friend he knows. They had an exchange of words and a fight ensued between them when the friend stabbed him twice to the chest.”