Peters was beaten and stabbed while socializing with a friend in Santa Elena

SANTA ELENA, Cayo District, Mon. July 24, 2017–One week after Marlon Peters, 38, a laborer of Perez Street, Santa Elena, was beaten and stabbed while socializing with an unknown friend in Santa Elena on the afternoon of Saturday, July 15, he died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Friday morning in the Intensive Care Unit. Police have launched a murder investigation into Peters’ death.

Police said that at about 4:45 that Saturday afternoon, they were called to Perez Street, where they found Peters lying on a driveway.

Peters had been drinking with a friend who has not been identified, when the two men became involved in an argument which escalated into a physical fight, during which the unknown person allegedly beat and stabbed Peters, then escaped.