Venezuelan woman stabbed to death during domestic row

A Venezue­lan woman was stabbed to death dur­ing a do­mes­tic dis­pute in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing. 

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 3 am, Ke­li­mar Del Je­sus Du­ran Mo­ril­lo was at her apart­ment on Good­will Road, En­ter­prise, when she had an ar­gu­ment with a man she knew well, who is al­so a Venezue­lan mi­grant. 

The man re­port­ed­ly grabbed a knife and stabbed Mo­ril­lo three times be­fore run­ning away. Mo­ril­lo was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope, where she died while re­ceiv­ing emer­gency treat­ment. The sus­pect, who is want­ed by po­lice of­fi­cers in­ves­ti­gat­ing Mo­ril­lo’s death, was not de­tained up to late yes­ter­day. 

Mo­ril­lo is the sec­ond Venezue­lan woman to be stabbed to death in cen­tral Trinidad in less than a month. On June 14, 28-year-old Mar­i­an­nys Jimenez, who resided at Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, was at­tacked by a man in Ch­agua­nas. 

She and a col­league were on their way to work at a Chi­nese restau­rant lo­cat­ed along the Mon­trose Main Road in Ch­agua­nas when the at­tack oc­curred. Her col­league es­caped un­scathed as she ran in­to a near­by su­per­mar­ket, while the man re­peat­ed­ly stabbed Jimenez. 

The sus­pect in Jimenez’s killing, al­so be­lieved to be a fel­low Venezue­lan mi­grant, is yet to be ar­rest­ed. 

Homi­cide de­tec­tives are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to both mur­ders.  —Derek Achong