74-y-o woman chopped to death in Portland home

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GARETH DAVIS SrJournalist at Jamaica Star

September 29, 2026

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74-y-o woman chopped to death in Portland home

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A quiet Portland farming community has been left shaken after a 74-year-old retiree was found brutally chopped to death in her own home early Monday morning.

Dead is Nuriel Burke Mills, a resident of Fellowship in the Rio Grande Valley.

Police said Mills' body was discovered shortly after 1 a.m. by a relative, who found her lying in her bed with multiple chop wounds to her head.

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