Guyanese professional boxer Trevis Hall, known as ‘Black Mamba,’ has been charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend in Queens, the New York Daily News has reported.
According to the report, Hall, 28, was picked up hours after he fatally stabbed and bludgeoned Margarita Rivera, 31, a mother of two, with a pipe near her home on Watson Place, in Jamaica, New York last week Monday afternoon.
Hall, a professional featherweight and 2009 Golden Gloves champ, was found unconscious behind a dumpster 10 miles from the murder scene, police said.
He and the victim had been dating for years, family members said. He was charged last week Wednesday.
Hall had threatened Rivera with a knife in June and police were called to the home last week for another dispute.
Hall, who was born in Georgetown, Guyana, won the Golden Gloves championship as a bantamweight in the novice class in 2009.
He was also a Golden Gloves semifinalist as a bantamweight in the open class in 2010 and 2011.
Witnesses had told the media that Rivera was beaten so badly with a metal pipe that she was unrecognisable and that one of the stab wounds was so large that it looked like she had been shot.
They reported seeing a person hit Rivera with a pipe around 2.30 pm, before repeatedly stabbing her in the head and chest and running away. The woman was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital and police said both the pipe and the knife were found at the scene.
