UB Lecturer Bound and Stabbed to Death in Eldridgeville

Anthony Brown Jr.

Fifty-seven-year-old Anthony Brown was found dead inside his home in Eldridgeville, Toledo District on Monday.  The lecturer of the University of Belize in Punta Gorda had been bound at the hands and feet and was stabbed multiple times.  Sometime around midday, police were called to Brown’s residence near the outskirts of town where they observed his lifeless body.  A preliminary investigation reveals that Brown, who returned to Belize from the United States upon retiring several years ago, was attacked by a pair of men who inflicted the fatal injuries to his body.  Brown’s body remains at the Punta Gorda Hospital pending an autopsy.  A criminal investigation into the murder of the UB lecturer is ongoing.