Murder on Corozal’s Phillip Goldson Highway

Police in Corozal are trying to piece together a murder that left thirty-five-year-old Lionel Logan dead, and two others including a little girl injured. It happened on Sunday evening near Carolina Village on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Investigators say that Logan along with Julian Dyer and other had just left a football match in the village in a black Chevrolet Equinox when they came under heavy gunfire. While a motive has not been established, ASP Stacy Smith stressed today that both men are known to police.

 

ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer

“What the investigation has so far disclosed is that both Logan and Dyer were traveling on board an SUV after leaving a football game, and they were happened upon by several male persons who drove up alongside them on board a van and fired into that vehicle, resulting in the injury of these persons. Logan eventually succumbed to the injuries that he sustained earlier today while Dyer is listed in a stable condition. No motive has been established so far. However, I will say that these persons are persons that are known to the police. Again, no motive so far but as I had indicated they are persons who had come under police radar before.”

 

Reporter

“Is it that there might have been an altercation at the football match prior to?

 

ASP Stacy Smith

“It’s an ongoing investigation. As more information is learned, and it becomes necessary to be shared, that will be done.”

 

The Chevrolet Equinox the men were travelling in was later found abandoned in the San Antonio Village area.

 

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