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GeneralKiller of PC Marvin Locke pleads guilty

by Charles Gladden

BELIZE CITY, Wed. Aug. 10, 2022
It was a brazen act that stunned the public—the fatal stabbing of a police constable, Marvin Locke, 49, outside the Racoon Street Police Station in 2017. The man who did it—52-year-old Honduran national, Marcial Toledo—had waited at the station for Locke to appear before killing the officer, and this week, on Tuesday, August 9, he pleaded guilty to murder before Supreme Court Justice Susan Lamb.


In March 2017, Toledo had apparently arrived home intoxicated and claimed he had been told that his wife had been seen along with PC Locke that day. A few hours later, after telling his wife what he allegedly heard, he went to the Racoon Street Police Station and sat there until Locke appeared (reportedly when PC Locke was coming off his shift), and the two men proceeded to talk.

They then went outside the station to continue their conversation, and it was at that point that Toledo took out a knife and stabbed Locke 5 times, including a stab to the chest that would later cause the officer’s death.

Locke’s colleagues quickly intervened in an attempt to save their fellow officer’s life, but Toledo then tried to stab one of them. This prompted another officer to hit Toledo on the head with a cement block.

PC Locke succumbed to his injuries around 5:15 p.m. that evening, just a few hours later.

Since the incident almost 5 years ago, Toledo has been remanded at the Belize Central Prison

The case management for his trial began last Friday, and it was reportedly at that point that Toledo indicated to the court that he was considering entering a guilty plea for murder. He formally did so on Tuesday and must return to court on September 23 for his sentence hearing.

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