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Aug 23, 2007

Woman murdered in Belmopan; suspect detained

Details are sketchy but we can confirm a murder that has been reported in the nation’s capital. The body of twenty-three year old Honduran Zilma Copo was found by neighbors at her home on St. Matthew Street around four-thirty Wednesday afternoon. She had been stabbed numerous times in the chest. Present at the time were her two children, ages two and three. Police have detained one suspect and are looking for a second.


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