What’s Samuel August’s Mental State?

Samuel August Sr.

The mental state of August Senior has come under question following the killing his five-year-old son, Samir August, and the child’s grandmother, fifty-three-year-old Louise Young. On the morning of October thirty-first, he used a backhoe belonging to the City Council and rammed it into three houses on Fabers Road, including the house where his children lived with Young.  Deputy ComPol Chester Williams gave an update on the result of a psychiatric evaluation that August Senior underwent prior to this morning’s incident.

Chester Williams

Chester Williams, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operation)

“From what I have been briefed, the psychiatrist has concluded, preliminary, that he is suffering from some psychiatric problem and he was to be admitted to the place in Belmopan. However, there was not place there for him so he was kept at the K.H.M.H. until space could be obtained or he overcomes the difficulty that he was going through, hence the reason why he was still at the K.H.M.H.  The directive to the investigators is to ensure that the matter is fully investigated; we’ll put the file together, try to obtain his blood/alcohol urine content and the psychiatric report and we will be forwarding the file to the Director of Public Prosecution for her to make a determination as to how we proceed—if the charges are going to be murder or manslaughter.”