News Five has confirmed that four men, believed to be involved in a Monday evening home invasion in Hopkins, have been captured in Belmopan. The four men were taken in a pre-dawn operation mounted by units of the Belmopan Police Department this morning. On Monday, forty-seven-year-old teacher Josephine Augustine was beaten and stabbed in the neck. She died on the spot, while her husband, retired teacher Dudley Augustine, was beaten and left for dead. Nobody reported hearing any noises from the home during the attack, but neighbours were summoned by Augustine’s cries for help. They jumped the fence and found the front door kicked in, and the couple on the floor of the home covered in blood. Dudley Augustine’s dark green Isuzu Trooper was stolen by the attackers, and was found deserted near mile twenty-eight on the Hummingbird Highway on Tuesday morning. The four men detained by Belmopan Police have been transferred to the Dangriga Police Station where they are currently being questioned. A source in Dangriga has told us that one of the men was found with a bite wound to his chest, sustained, it is believed, when Josephine Augustine tried to fight him off.
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