Two days later 15-year-old Matthew Borges was arrested and charged with murdering Viloria-Paulino, a classmate at his high school, by Massachusetts State Police. Borges will be trialled as an adult in this horrifying first degree murder case.
A police report acquired by WBZ NewsRadio alleges that the young student at Lawrence High School admitted to killing Viloria-Paulino, 16, in a chilling confession to a friend.
On Thursday, Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino's decapitated body was discovered on the banks of the Merrimack River 30 miles north of Boston. His severed head was found nearby.
A police report acquired by WBZ NewsRadio alleges that the young student at Lawrence High School admitted to killing Viloria-Paulino, 16, in a chilling confession to a friend.
A witness told investigators that Mathew told him he did something bad.
Mathew then told him that he stabbed a kid and then cut his head off, killing him.
When Mathew said this he was motioning with his hands as if he was stabbing someone and cutting someone's head off. Mathew then walked out of the house.
According to the Washington Post, Borges told investigators that he and Viloria-Paulino went to a spot on the river to smoke marijuana and watch a boat house across the river light up.
At an afternoon press conference on Saturday, Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett alleged that Borges had brutally killed Viloria-Paulino, mutilating his body so badly that the autopsy took 11 hours.
As this tragic news sinks in and the Merimack river bank is transformed into a grisly crime scene the Tower Hill community have mourned the tragic loss of Viloria-Paulino.
On Monday, at his arraignment, Borges pleaded not guilty and was ordered to be held without bail. But if found guilty, the crime will obviously mark the end of Borges' life as he knows it.
The teenager is due to appear in court on January 10 for a probable cause hearing
