A Massachusetts teenager stabbed his classmate, then beheaded him and hacked off his hands in a jealous rage, according to a prosecutor in the opening arguments of the victim’s murder trial.
The prosecutor, Jay Gubitose, said on Monday that Mathew Borges flew into a rage in 2016 when he saw his girlfriend sitting with Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino in the cafeteria of Lawrence High School.
“The defendant was tough on the outside but insecure on the inside,” Gubitose said, according to the Boston Herald. “He was jealous” and “started screaming at her.”
Gubitose told the jury Borges, who was 15 at the time, sent his girlfriend a text that said: “I think of killing someone and I smirk … It’s all I think about every day”.
In November that year, a day before Borges allegedly killed Viloria-Paulino, he texted the girl –with whom he had broken up by then because of his jealousies – saying: “‘The next time you see me, look at my eyes because that’s the last time they’ll be like that. They’ll be dead.’”
Surveillance video at the home of a neighbor of Viloria-Paulino showed the victim and Borges leaving together and walking toward a river, the prosecutor told the jury.
Borges, who is being tried as an adult, told police that he and the victim walked toward the river to smoke marijuana and that he left.
