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Teen ‘killer’ Matthew Borges, 15, ‘beheaded and hacked up classmate after flying into jealous rage because he talked to his girlfriend’
A TEENAGER beheaded and hacked up his classmate after flying into a jealous rage because he talked to his girlfriend, prosecutors told a court in the US.
Matthew Borges – just 15 at the time – is accused of butchering 16-year-old Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino, whose dismembered body was found on the banks of the Merrimack River in Massachusetts in 2016.
Borges’ then girlfriend Leilany Dejesus, now 18, testified on Monday that he was consumed by rage and jealousy when he saw her talk with Lee at Lawrence High School.
She said that Borges was so angry that at one point the school dean had to escort him from the cafeteria, WBTS-TV reported.
Lee and Borges went to the riverbank to smoke marijuana, after which his family reported him missing the next day.
The victim’s body was found in December 2016 by a woman walking her dog.
CHILLING TEXTS
During opening statements at the trial, the Essex County assistant district attorney, read a text message that Borges allegedly sent to a female friend.
It read: “I think of killing someone and I smirk.
“It’s all I think about every day but I control myself…I like the sound of it – the idea of causing pain in someone getting in my way or causing me pain.”
Prosecutors claim Borges told other teens: “I killed him. He’s dead.”
Borges, now 17, was allegedly seen on surveillance video walking toward the river with Lee on the night of his death.
‘PREMEDITATED MURDER’
Prosecutors said that while the two teens were out by the river, a group of four of Borges’ friends broke into Lee’s home.
The other boys allegedly told police that Borges planned to kill him.
Prosecutors also alleged that a note found by investigators reveals how Borges planned to carry out the murder.
Borges’ attorney, Ed Hayden, said the text messages and the note cited by prosecutors do not prove that his client is the killer.
He said: “There is no murder weapon, there is no tools to dismember a body, there are no fingerprints, there is no blood, there is no DNA.
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“In these thousands of texts and messages there is no evidence that Matthew killed Lee.
“Anything incriminating is referring to the house break.
“There is nothing in all these messages.”
Borges is being tried as an adult for first-degree murder.