POLICE are hunting for a teenage suspect in the murder of 22-year-old Dico Davi Roberto Moreira, whose headless body was found on the Tabatinga Lethem road in Central Rupununi, Region Nine, on Sunday.

Police are looking for his 17-year-old cousin who is suspected to be the murderer; both men are from Bonfim, Brazil.

The Lethem Police and the Roraima Military Police have partnered to take steps to arrest the suspect. Reports revealed that Moreira’s headless body was seen lying on the road, clad in long black pants and a blue jersey with multiple stab wounds to the upper back; both wrists were partly severed.

His sister made a positive identification of the body based on a tattoo on the left hand. Reports indicate that Moreira and the suspect have had a long-standing dispute after the suspect was involved in an intimate relationship with the mother of Moreira’s child.

It is alleged that on November 11, the suspect stole a bicycle which belonged to Moreira’s mother and sold it in Lethem but Moreira retrieved the bicycle and gave it back to his mother. It is further alleged that on November 13, the suspect and some of his friends went to Moreira’s house and told his mother that they will kill him.

The head has not yet been found, although searches have been carried out in the region. There is a possibility that it was thrown into the river by the killer.