Mobstyle murder goes down in Boom
It has all the markings of a professional hit: a puncture wound to the back of the head, the victim’s body propped up to hide the crime until daylight, and not a motive in sight. The village of Boom Burrell is still coming to terms with the fact that one of their own has been murdered in the early hours of Sunday. This morning, News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams went in search of answers to the many questions that surround this grisly crime.
Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting
The quiet community of Burrell Boom was once again shaken when a sixty-seven year old security guard was found murdered. Police say Arthur Lawrence Seguro, an employee of Cisco Construction Company was on duty at the site at the Boom Bridge around mile seventeen on the Northern Highway at midnight on Saturday.
Around 2:00 a.m. a taxi driver residing at this house shouted for him in passing and heard no reply. He later went to look for Seguro and found him dead in a sitting position in this excavator. When the corpse was checked, authorities found a large stab wound behind his left ear.
When seventeen-year-old Selvin Seguro came to take his uncle’s place on the job site, he too was attacked. He said it was around twilight on Sunday when two men rode up on bicycles wearing masks and camouflage uniforms.”
Selvin Seguro, Nephew of Deceased
“They told me not to go anywhere and they hold me, juck me and slammed me down on the ground. They lashed me on my foot two times with a stick.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“Did they steal anything from the worksite?”
Selvin Seguro
“No.”
Ricky Smith, who works as a construction worker at the site, says he was surprised to find the excavator running when he arrived around 8:30 this morning.
Ricky Smith, Site Worker
“The glove compartment of the machine was ransacked and some papers we have in the compartment moved and went inside a different compartment.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“Was the key actually in the ignition?”
Ricky Smith
“No, the key broke inside the ignition. We have lot of other things around here and nothing is missing. We have an outboard engine, water pump and a boat, but nothing’s missing.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“Are you concerned being a villager in this quiet community?”
Brad Pattico, Resident
“Well we were concerned. As a matter of fact, there were people who came out with their guns, because it’s a kind of thing where you try to defend yourself. You don’t know who else will be next, it this a trend that’s happening? There are jackers out there and is this something that they have against Cisco, the company that really hired the man or whatever? Why was the man not harmed himself before he died and that sort of stuff?”
Ann-Marie Williams for News 5.
Police have yet to make any arrests.
