Cayo taxi man is year’s second murder victim

Exactly one week after the year’s first murder was discovered, the second homicide of 2008 has been reported. The corpse of fifty-seven year old Santa Elena resident, Raul Cortez was discovered around nine this morning off Prayer Mountain Road in Ontario Village, Cayo. The taxi driver’s body was found slumped over the steering wheel of his car with an apparent stab wound to the neck. The murder weapon was nowhere in sight. Cortez was last seen alive on Sunday morning when he left home in his taxi. At news time police had no leads and were urging anyone with information to call the nearest police station or Crimestoppers.