'I'VE
DONE SOMETHING BAD!'
What mop-haired teen
‘murderer’ Matthew Borges, 15, ‘told his friend after beheading and cutting up
a classmate’
He
allegedly told a witness that he had 'stabbed a kid and cut his head off
killing him'
6th
December 2016, 12:12 pm
A
SCHOOLBOY charged with the “horrific” murder of a classmate who was found
decapitated near a river in the US last week told someone he had “done
something bad”, according to a police report.
Matthew Borges appeared in Lawrence District
Court amid to face a first-degree murder rap over the death of 16-year-old Lee
Manuel Vilora-Paulino.
Borges
pleaded not guilty.
Lee
Manuel Vilora-Paulino, 16, was found on the banks of the Merrimack River in the
city of Lawrence in Essex County, Massachusetts.
Essex
District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett told reporters during a news conference on
Saturday that Viloria-Paulino’s body was so badly mutilated that an autopsy
took 11 hours.
The
teenager’s arms had been hacked off and his head was found 45 metres away, the Eagle Tribune reported.
“This was a horrific, horrific murder,” Blodgett told reporters. “While it shook the community, we were completely and totally
resolved to bring this matter to justice.”
The
schoolboy was arrested without incident on Saturday – two days after
Vilora-Paulino’s mutilated body was discovered.
Carrie
Kimball Monahan, spokesperson for the Essex District Attorney’s Office, said
investigators “just don’t know” how the teens knew each other or what the
motive was for the gruesome killing.
“We’re
not aware of what type of relationship they had,” Monahan told The New York Post.
A witness, according to police documents filed in
Lawrence District Court on Monday, told investigators that the suspect recently
confessed to him that he had killed Viloria-Paulino.
“[The suspect] told him he did something
bad,” court documents state, according to MassLive.com.
“[The suspect] then told him that he
stabbed a kid and cut off his head killing him.
“When [The suspect] said this he was
motioning with his hands as if he was stabbing someone and cutting someone’s
head off.”
The
teen told police he and Viloria-Paulino had only walked to the remote section
of Lawrence along the Merrimack River to smoke cannabis on November 18,
claiming he parted with him afterwards.
Relatives
of Viloria-Paulino said the suspect had been at the family’s home just a few
days before he went missing on November 18.
They
told the Boston Globe that the Lawrence Police Department insisted
the teen had simply run away and declined to search for him – even after they
filed a missing persons report.
Police
haven’t responded to that.
Lawrence
Mayor Daniel Rivera said he’s open to the possibility of launching an
independent investigation into how police handled the case, he told the Eagle-Tribune.
“This
tore the city apart,” Rivera said. “This is not just a murder, two young
people’s lives have ended.”
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2339528/what-mop-haired-teen-murderer-matthew-borges-15-told-his-friend-after-beheading-and-cutting-up-a-classmate/
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