The latest and most vicious homicide occurred this morning in murder capital, Belize City and according to our records it is the twenty-sixth murder since the beginning of this year. Twenty seven year old Lacey Rosales, originally from Sand Hill, returned to Belize from the United States only a few months ago and was not known to have any enemies. Rosales, who shared an apartment with her partner on Neal Pen Road, was brutally stabbed six times when she exited the building at about five o’clock. The housemate said she heard the screams but did not believe it was Lacey but after she looked outside she saw Lacey’s parked car. When she walked out she found Lacey suffering from the stab wounds by their neighbor’s apartment. The motive for her murder remains undetermined. According to her sister, Helen Rosales, Lacey was up early to take their mother to seek medical treatment in Dangriga.