San Ignacio man convicted of 2004 machete murder

Two and a half years after a brutal killing in San Ignacio, a young man has been convicted of murder. At three thirty this afternoon, a jury found twenty-one year old Dionicio Salazar guilty by unanimous verdict of the murder of twenty-two year old Randy August. August was hacked to death with a machete by a lone assailant as he sat on the banks of the Macal River with his girlfriend, Janelle Longsworth. During trial, Longsworth testified that she watched as Salazar approached them from behind and then attacked August. Investigations later revealed that the motive of the attack was an ongoing feud between a number of young men from San Ignacio and Santa Elena.

Alberto August, Father of Victim