Residents of Cotton Tree Village charged with 2008 murder

Almost two years after a murder in early 2008, a second man has been charged. An armed robbery of the Sanabria family of Cotton Tree Village in the Cayo District ended in the horrific murder of a twenty-two year old woman. Mirna Sanabria was fatally shot on the neck on February twenty-seventh at her family’s grocery store after three masked men, armed with guns, entered the business. Mirna was clutching her baby when she the bullet hit her. She fell to the ground and died holding on to her seven month old baby. The young woman and her mother, Martha, were robbed of their jewelry, cash and cell phone. The armed thieves gained access to the store through the back yard where Mirna’s father, Horacio, was first attacked.

Horacio Sanabria, Shot During Attack (February 28, 2008)
“When I reached there two men attacked me. One of them had a gun and when he grabbed me, the other was going to chop me with a machete but I managed to grab the handle and slide it down, cutting his hand in the process. The other man then shot at me but I bent down and the bullet just grazed my head.”

Horacio Sanabria Jr., Brorther of Murder Victim (February 28, 2008)
“When I hear di bullets I told she I gwein cause I hear bullet and den when i reach ya soh I see my pa di come out with di car. Den I seh cho da mussi somebody deh shot eena di shop so I start run. But den when I see my pa, my pa done di go. He tell me boy, dehn kill yoh sister and I seh “What!” And den dehn tell me dehn kill yoh sister. “Cho dat dah noh true mein.” When I gone een deh I see latta blood pan di ground.”