Bernandino Matias, left, allegedly killed his 16 year-old ex Tania Rico, proper, after she dumped him for an additional boy and known as him ugly (Footage: Decatur PD/Reynolds Funeral Dwelling)
A teenage assassin minimize his ex-girlfriend’s throat after she known as him ugly – then requested the 16 year-old if she was okay as she died, a courtroom heard. Horrific proof learn to a decide on Wednesday detailed Bernandino Matias’s alleged confession to police after he killed Tania Rico, 16, in Decatur, Alabama, in October 2019.
The confession mentioned: ‘I jumped on her again and pulled her hair with my left hand and minimize her two extra occasions within the facet of the neck. She started making a loud night breathing sound. I requested her, ‘Child, are you okay?’ and took my issues and left.’
Matias, who was 19 on the time of the killing, and has since turned 20, allegedly informed police he was livid with Rico for insulting his look. He mentioned: ‘She was insulting me and my household, mentioned I had an unpleasant face.
‘She informed me to depart…I informed her I beloved her…I stop college to pay for the condominium.’ Matias additionally informed police interviewer Sean Mukaddam that he was indignant with Rico after she informed him she was breaking off their 4 12 months relationship as a result of ‘She beloved one other boy,’ it was mentioned.
Tania Rico died after Matias slashed her throat, a courtroom heard. She had not too long ago ended their 4 12 months relationship (Image: Reynolds Funeral Dwelling)
A decide was additionally informed how Matias killed Rico after sneaking round to the again of her condominium, and confronting her after listening to her speak to a different man on the telephone.
He’s mentioned to have dragged a blade throughout Rico’s throat twice, with that laceration killing {the teenager}, Decatur Daily reported.
Afterwards, he fled from Alabama to his uncle’s home in Tennessee, and can be accused of flinging the homicide weapon within the Tennessee River whereas en route.
Matias was later arrested in Knoxville, and extradited again to Alabama.
A decide dominated Wednesday that Matias, who was 19 on the time of the homicide, ought to stand trial as an grownup
The courtroom was additionally informed of Matias’s rage throughout his subsequent police interview, the place he’s mentioned to have damaged Mukaddam’s pen whereas furiously re-enacting how he’d killed Rico.
Wednesday’s proceedings had been held to determine whether or not to attempt Mathias as a youthful offender, or an grownup. Decide Charles Elliott in the end dominated Mathias ought to face trial as an grownup after listening to from prosecutor Courtney Schellack.
Schellack mentioned: ‘This isn’t only a homicide case. It was horrific. It was not a youthful indiscretion. It was carried out with numerous anger and triggered numerous ache to the household.
‘He turned so enraged… He killed her and fled to Tennessee. That isn’t a youthful indiscretion.
‘That was an grownup determination with grownup penalties.’
Matias will now face trial in September 2021, and is being held in jail with out bail till then.
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