Dangriga Man Dies Following Machete Fight in Rivas Estate

Forty-one-year-old Linden Kelly died after sustaining severe injuries during a machete fight on Friday evening.

The incident happened in the Rivas Estate area of Dangriga Town.

Police say Kelly went to a residence looking for his girlfriend, left, then returned armed with a machete and was confronted by two men, leading to a violent altercation. His common-law wife, Susan, told Plus News that “he had swelling in the brain. His eye has been damaged. The cat scan shows that he has lost a lot of blood in the brain, and the brain has shifted over to the other side.”

She said she “heard that there was a horse incident…that he had stolen someone’s horse, and that’s the last thing he would do.”

“He is a fun man. He enjoys his horses. He will bend backwards for you. He looks after the next person,” she added. “I would like to see justice happen with the people that did these injuries to him.”

Police have detained two individuals.

Kelly had previous encounters with law enforcement. In September 2016, he was charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of 32-year-old Elton Polonio on the island of San Pedro. Police reports at the time indicated that the stabbing occurred during an alleged confrontation inside a hardware store on Angel Coral Street and was believed to have stemmed from a love triangle. Polonio collapsed and died shortly after the incident.