Everal Gray is Charged for Murder of Jahvin Wagner

Everal Gray

Turning to crime, police provided updates today to a number of murders under investigation. Police say that Belize City resident Everal Gray is the gunman that executed Jahvin Wagner back in November 2019 in Dangriga. Wagner was speaking with a friend in front of his grandmother’s house on Commerce Street in Dangriga when a gunman opened fire at him. Two and a half months later, police formally arrested and charged Gray, who is also identified as a security guard, for the crime of murder. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero gives details.

Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch

“Reference the murder of Jahvin Wagner which occurred on the eighteenth day of November, 2019, on the twenty-ninth day of January, 2020, police formally arrested and charged Everal Gray, thirty-five years Belizean labourer for the crime of murder.”

Hilberto Romero

Reporter

“Anyone else being sought?”

Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero

“Not at this time. We have charged this one person and he will be taken before the court.”

Duane Moody

“Has police been able to determine what was the motive behind that murder?”

Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero

“No, we did not establish motive.”