Accused Murderer, Christian Espat Hands Himself In To Police

Christian Espat

Tonight, the search for wanted man, Christian Espat has ended as he handed himself in to Corozal police this morning, accompanied by attorney Linden Jones. He was transferred to the San Pedro Police Station where he is now detained pending the outcome of an investigation against him as it relates to Sunday night’s triple murder in San Pedro. Espat and Michael Brown are accused of the murder of three-year-old Amari Rodriguez, twenty-five-year-old Delmar Rodriguez and Carlos Chi, as well as the attempted murder of four others who were shot during the attack in the San Pedrito area. The other suspect, Michael Brown, who handed himself in to San Pedro Police on Tuesday, is charged with three counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder, and will be arraigned on Friday in the Magistrate’s Court.

Michael Brown

Witnesses who were in the area when the incident happened have named both men as the two who ambushed the golf cart that Delmar Rodriguez was driving that night. Rodriguez and his common-law wife, Karla Cordova and their three-year-old daughter, Amari had gone out to change a check and eat at Sandy Toes Lounge and were returning home before midnight on Sunday when two men opened fire on them and their friends, Carlos Chi and Leonel Cornejo. The four persons who were wounded were pedestrians who were in the area at the time.

Voice of: Mother of Christian Espat

Voice of: Mother of Christian Espat

“On Thursday the police arrested him at his house in San Pedro. They took him to the station and they hit him really bad. All of his face and head were bruised. His eyes were swollen. He was very ill. And then on Friday, they called telling me that they went to Chetumal to check the doctor. So we decided to go see him there early on Saturday morning.  We went to Chetumal to visit him. When we arrived, we saw him very ill. I never thought that the police, well they’ve done it before, but this time it was really bad. They hit him and he has missing teeth. This is not fair what they did. Every time that he is arrested he gets beat up. He does nothing. He does not even come out of the house because if they see him, they arrested him and beat him. I think this is very unfair because the law is the law. They cannot be hitting him. This is an injustice. I told my son, I saw him very ill in the bed. What we did is to feed him there. He was very ill that he could not get up. I understand the pain of the families because I have experience it too. My three sons have been murdered. I know what it feels like. It hurts. I express my condolences to the families.”