Woman stabbed on the neck in San Pedro Town

Posted: Thursday, October 26, 2017. 1:25 pm CST.

By BBN Staff: Yesterday around 4 pm, San Pedro Police visited the Poly Clinic in San Pedro Town and saw Alexia Del Carmen Melendez, 45, suffering from cut wounds to the left side of neck and  lower neck.

Police investigation reveals that around 3:45 pm, Melendez was walking home on an unnamed Street in San Mateo Area, when a well-known male person riding a bicycle approached her and attacked her with a knife inflicting the injuries.

Police have since arrested and charged Gilbert Anthony Palacio, 28, a Belizean Construction Worker of San Mateo Area, San Pedro Town, for the crime of  ‘grievous harm, use of deadly means of harm, and attempted murder’.

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