3 Charged for Paul Jex Murder

Nelson Paguada

For security reasons, the three men accused of killing Jamaal Paul Jex last Tuesday on Ambergris Caye were brought to Belize City for arraignment. Nineteen-year-old Nelson Paguada and a fifteen-year-old minor, both fishermen of San Mateo, and forty-five-year-old Timothy Carcamo, a fisherman of San Juan area, were arraigned for the sensational murder of Jex, who with another individual were waylaid by gunmen who opened fire on them on Crocodile Street in the San Pedrito area.

Timothy Carcamo

The perpetrators then reportedly fled on a boat. Despite eyewitness accounts linking all three men to the scene, Nelson Paguada and Timothy Carcamo both denied involvement to Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer. We hear from police about the capture of the trio.

ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C. C.I.B., Belize City

“We had the arrest of three male persons, reference the Paul Jex murder, who are a minor and two other individuals. The first is Timothy Carcamo, a forty-five year old Belizean of San Juan area, and Nelson Paguada, a nineteen-year-old Belizean of San Mateo area, along with a minor from that same address.”

Reporter

“Age of the minor?”

Alejandro Cowo

ASP Alejandro Cowo

“He’s fifteen years old.”

Reporter

“When were they arrested, sir?”

ASP Alejandro Cowo

“They were arrested on Friday evening.”

Chief Magistrate Fraser remanded the minor to the Wagner’s Youth Facility while the two adults, Nelson Paguada and Timothy Carcamo were remanded into custody at the Belize Central Prison. They return to court on April twenty-seventh, 2018.