Guatemalan Nationals Charged for Murder of Salvadoran Man in Franks Eddy Village

Hilcia Cano Arevalo

Belmopan Police have arrested and charged a man and a woman in the brutal chopping death of fifty-two-year-old Santos Guerra Dominguez. Guatemalan nationals’ forty-year-old Arnulfo Nunez Gonzalez and thirty-nine-year-old Hilcia Cano Arevalo, both of Franks Eddy Village, were jointly charged with the murder of Guerra Dominguez. Sometime around four on Sunday morning, the Salvadoran national was socializing at a house where an argument started and he was attacked with a machete. He reportedly left the residence, but his killers followed him and chopped him to death.

Arnulfo Nunez Gonzalez

Villagers say that they heard screams just before midnight and at least one resident saw a man chopping Dominguez to death. His body was discovered lying on a road in the village and his face was chopped beyond recognition. Dominguez’ family told us that he has only been in Belize for about a month to visit his son. They say that he was planning to relocate to Belize.