A Ma s sachusetts teenager stabbed his cla s smate to death before beheading him and hacking off his hands in a jealous rage, the prosecutor claimed in the opening arguments of the victim's murder trial.
Prosecutor Jay Gubitose said that the defendant Mathew Borges got raged in 2016 after seeing his girlfriend sitting with Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino in the cafeteria of Lawrence High School where all three used to study.
According to the Boston Herald, the prosecutor told in the hearing,
The defendant was tough on the outside but insecure on the inside. He was jealous and started screaming at her.
Gubitose further told Borges, who was 15 at the time of the murder, texted his girlfriend saying:
I think of killing someone and I smirk ... It's all I think about every day.
As Fox News reported Borges texted his ex-girlfriend, with whom he broke up because he was insecure, a day before the murder saying:
The next time you see me, look at my eyes because that's the last time they'll be like that. They'll be dead.
The prosecutor told Jury surveillance video obtained by the investigator showed Borges and the victim leaving together and walking toward a river. But, the accused told police that he and the victim walked toward the river to smoke marijuana after which he left.
Later, a group of four men were captured entering the victim's house and returning with duffle bags. Meanwhile, Borges' attorney, Edward Hayden avowed his client, and his friends burglarized Paulino's home, however, denied he committed murder.
Hayden further told that the case against his client, Borges was weak as it lacked evidence such as DNA, weapons or blood implicating him. He even emphasized the texts that "supposedly indicate jealousy" didn't mention Viloria-Paulino and by no means, it indicated he was murdered by Borges.
An unidentified man walking his dog on December 1 by the riverside found Viloria-Paulino's decapitated body and police later found his head in a bag close to the body.
