Samuel Yanqae Porte, a 49 year old man late Saturday, September 2, 2023, mercilessly murdered his 40 year old partner Sarah Y. Morris, after a reported death threat earlier the same day, because she cooked cassava leaf soup and he doesn’t like it.
“I saw the man with the cutlass in his hands, he had bag, then I asked Samuel what happened, I said it was the children that called me, what happened, he said old ma, your daughter know that I can’t eat cassava, then she go cook cassava leaf, she can’t respect me, she noted.
The victim was unmercifully chopped by her partner Samuel Yanqae Porte, multiple times on her head, neck, and other parts of her body, at their Porte Hill residence, in Crozierville, Montserrado County.
As established by the victim’s mother, Ma Musu Cox and other family sources, she escorted her daughter late that night to attend to nature, but surprisingly got engaged by the murderer, who chopped her multiple times.
“I only heard her shouting mama I’m dying, so I went outside and saw him holding the cutlass so I ran to him and held the cutlass. We fought over the cutlass and then he left it and walk out of the yard,” she said.
Ma Musu Cox narrated that the entire confrontation begun earlier that day, when she was informed by the victim that her partner destroyed all of her business materials, because she cooked cassava leaf, and he doesn’t like it.
Because of this, the victim’s mother said the perpetrator angrily told her that he wasn’t spending the night at their home, and later threatened unspecified actions before he left.
According to residents of the township, he has committed multiple crimes, including murder, and rape.
Amid these crimes, he managed to exonerate himself and returned to the community.
With this and considering effects of the horrible death of Sarah Y. Morris, we are calling on the Liberia National Police and authorities of the Justice system to ensure that Justice is served.
As the Police at Careysburg, Zone 11 reported that the perpetrator was taken to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital after it was noticed that he had some emergency health complications, we are admonishing them to ensure that the matter is adequately probed, following his treatment.
