Anabell Kumul
There was a murder on San Pedro on Wednesday morning, which is believed to have been the cause of a domestic dispute; a twenty-eight year old tour guide on the island was stabbed multiple times and succumbed after he hemorrhaged from an injury to the left thigh. Felix Alamilla was sleeping at a rental house on the south part of the island, some four miles from the center of the town when around six a.m., it is alleged that his common-law-wife entered the house and stabbed him with a knife taken from the kitchen. An hour later, Alamilla would be dead and thirty-six year old Mexican national, Anabell Kumul, would be detained as she attempted to leave the island. Kumul’s caution statement and other witnesses’ accounts prompted charges against her. On Thursday, Kumul was arraigned in San Pedro’s Magistrate court for the murder of her common-law-husband with whom she shared two young children. This afternoon, she was transported to the Belize Central Prison. Investigating Officer, Sergeant Lenancio Bol, spoke to News Five via phone today about her arraignment.
Via Phone: Sgt. Lenancio Bol, Coastal Executive Unit
Lenancio Bol
“In regards to the murder of Felix Alamilla, we detained his common-law wife, Anabell Kumul, she is a Mexican national and we recorded a caution statement from her and also witness statements. We forwarded all the document copies to the Director of Public Prosecution’s Office and on yesterday’s date which is the twenty-fourth of July, 2014, we got back the directives to proceed with the murder charge. As a result of that, I formally arrested and charged the accused, Anabel Kumul for the crime of murder. She was arraigned on yesterday’s date and transported to the Kolbe Foundation where she will return to court on the twenty-fourth of August 2014.”
Duane Moody
“When we interviewed you on Wednesday, you had said that of course several other persons had been detained, possibly for conspiracy. Has any charges been levied on anyone else in respect to this murder?”
Felix Alamilla
Via Phone: Sgt. Lenancio Bol
“Right, others persons were detained nevertheless after the conclusion of recording statements and the relevant investigation, we had released all the additional persons and there is no additional charges at this moment for anyone else. We retrieved a number of knives with one in particular with what appeared to be bloodstains. That was forwarded to the lab and we are awaiting the results in regards to that.”
Kumul is to return to court on August twenty-fourth.
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