Paul Jex charged for murder of Aubrey Lopez
Paul Jex
The brutal murder of basketball player and teacher, Aubrey Lopez, left the country in disbelief that someone considered to be a model citizen would meet such a tragic death. Police have detained two suspects since the incident on May twelfth, and today one of them, twenty-two year old Paul Jex, was read a single charge of Murder in Magistrates’ Court. Lopez had just left Edward P. Yorke School where he taught and was driving a borrowed vehicle, when it was high jacked by a group of armed men who ordered him to drive to Prince Street. The assailants, who allegedly wanted the vehicle to carry out a hit on someone else, shot Lopez, threw him out of the vehicle and sped off. When police intercepted the car, all but two of the men inside managed to escape. Jex was one of the two that remained behind and was detained. Jex has been remanded until June twenty-third, but his brother Elton, feels that there was not proper investigation and that the charge is the result of a personal vendetta that police have against their family.
Elton Jex, Brother of Accused Murderer
ELTON JEX
“The reason why I’m saying that the charges against my brother are bogus is because at the time when this incident happened, my brother wasn’t even in the crime scene area. Apparently the police they get lead where the vehicle that they said committed the crime, the police they get some lead that the vehicle was on some street. Unfortunately, my brother was on the boulevard waiting for a taxi and he saw the same vehicle and he happens to know the driver of the same vehicle and the driver asked him if he wants a ride. He told me that he did take the ride with the driver and as soon as he get in the vehicle, that’s when the police hauled up behind the vehicle flashing their lights. So he didn’t know what was going on so he stayed in the vehicle. The other guys who were in the vehicle, they run out of the vehicle and escaped. He said the reason why he didn’t run was because he knew he didn’t do anything and because he didn’t run, the police they grabbed him and they badly beat him up. That’s another thing; they beat him up. His eyes, his face, his back is all swelled up. I am saying that the charges are bogus because the police have something personal against the Jex family from last year when it was alleged that they had something to do with my nephew’s death. I don’t know if you remember Kevin Francis Jex. Well, at the time if you could recall, I was making some allegations against the police.”
“I am upset because this is personal, like I said over and over. This is personal and this is not right what they are doing to the Jex family. They don’t even solve my nephew death from since last year but now dehn wah turn around and pin a murder on my brother. And I am disappointed. I am disappointed in the Police Department, I am disappointed in the Minister of National Security and when I say disappointed in the Minister of National Security it’s because many times people complain about police brutality and they seem to sit on their bottoms and don’t even try to do anything to try to stamp out these corrupted officers in the police department. And also I am disappointed in the PM for not doing anything. All of them are sitting on their bottoms and people are getting abused by the police department when they are supposed to protect us.”
In court Paul showed the magistrate his injuries and told her that after he was allegedly beaten, the police never took him to the hospital.
well make him talk who the driver is since he knows the driver. let him spit the whole things. i mean birds of a feather flock together. if i know some dude arecrazy and do criminal act why will i join them on a ride since i never know what they areup to. simple as that they should ask him who are the three s.o.bs that got away.
Riiiight Elton. Good one. Some guys just committed a murder and are in the stolen, blood-stained getaway vehicle, but still have the courtesy to offer this guy a ride. GIMME A G*D DAMN BREAK! HE DID IT!
He has no other alibi, he was found in the car, and the police did not put him in there and then arrested him. It was no co-incident that he was in that car, these animals killed an innocent man and they deserved the same verdict.
I am sick and tired of family protecting their love ones even if they know it in their hearts that there love ones are as guilty as hell.
Maybe, this murderer should try to clear his name and give up his friends to the police, do the right thing, and let the family of the victim rest.
We all know he is guilty…………
With everything that is happening in our society today we feel like we are prisoners in our own homes and fear the street. We say we need more role models and here we have a well know role model gun down in the street by a set of cowards. We need to take a stand . The criminal or criminals who robbed a child of his father must be made to pay. The police need to make sure that they have an air tight case, they need to take time to cover all bases . The Police Department needs to have competent officers on a case of this magnitude. If for some reason this killers or killers walk the Department must then sit down and take stock.
I am sure the police department got information from this guy, this is a high profile case… I am sure we will hear a lot more later, let us wait and see where this will go… too be continued!
i understand all of your comments but what u guys don’t understand the good always suffer for the bad i believe him when he says he didn’t know what was going on if he was guilty why didn’t he run if i didn’t kwn wat was going i don’t run either i’m not taking side if he does kwn the passager so just talk why take the rap for somrthing he din’t do not sure whats goes true they mind
Soory for the victim family wouldn’t want to go ture that pain so i hope the truth comes out and the real killers get what coming to them
Maddyvandijk, how can you determine whether this guy is guilty based on news reports?
Cat, I admire your objective thinking.
The cover up that his brother is trying to fool us with is very immature……I HAVE A 3 YEAR OLD SON and i can assure you THAT THAT TRICK WOULD NEVER PASS MY SON…lol……he should sit down and make up a better lie……..
If he loves his brother so dearly, then he should talk to his brother and have his brother release the names of the remaining names……..
The scenarios in the news report is all everyone of us her have to work with, from those scenarios we here on this forum have all tried to put the pieces together to try to make some sense of the story.
So he did not run away with his friends, but that is absolutely no proof that he was not the man who pulled the trigger. Perhaps he was not able to escape.
why would the police think that Paul Jex did it instead of the other man caught with him, perhaps the other man fingered him to the police.
Brother:
“At the time when this incident happened, my brother wasn’t even in the crime scene area”.
Where is the alibi?
Brother:
The police they get some lead that the vehicle was on some street. Unfortunately, my brother was on the boulevard waiting for a taxi and he saw the same vehicle and he happens to know the driver of the same vehicle and the driver asked him if he wants a ride. Whata co-incidence.
Sorry, this story from the brother” he say, she say”” has many holes, even a blind man can see them.
Well obviously this guy won’t talk. He probably fears his life now. He won’t say who was in the vehicle. So the police took into their own hand and interrogated him. What wrong with this we say? We want justice? Does this guy disserve this type of punishment for answers? The police are limited with criminal investigation equipment and have to rely on old school patterns. Sometimes it takes a little beating to realize that this is not a game and the people of Belize is tired of dealing with these ignorant “kids”. We would like to go out at night and have fun as well and not worry about getting jacked or killed for materialistic stuff. Everyone has an opinion in this forum and has the right to say what they want. “It is what it is”. I would rather this guy get beat up for the information than these kids sitting out there waiting for their next victim to kill. Remember they were going to kill someone and that individual is either dead already or running for his life. Sometimes you have to take matters in your own hands to find these culprits.
He needs to be hang ,he is a murderer and his brother too they look the same
the only positive in his interview is about him complaining about perdomo and barrow. besides that, his brother should be tried and find guilty and sentence to death. PERIOD, ONE MURDERER LESS…
and it will only get worst , It is just basically playing with the mind of the cops because if u are innocent then u will talk because u know what the agenda down the road and what penalty u gonna go through when the police hold u .
the law says your inoccent until prove guilty but you have to have a open mind yes there are alot of criminal those those a alot a thing and get off but sometimes the innocent sufers the the bad ones it might be in this case only time will tell .
Just throw their … in the deep blue beyond the reef, guilty or not guilty…….
Again see this doesn’t make any sense cause ok they detained two person but one one got charge you tell me how those this work me two person is found only one get charge wow I find that every strange maybe the brother those have a point the police have a personal grudge against their family it sound like i’m taking his side but I am not u just have to look on the both sides
THIS STUPID YOUNG MEN SHOULD BE TORTURED AND BEATEN UNTIL HE SAYS WHO DID IT. AND FOR HIS BROTHER HE SHOULD SHUT THE … UP AND STOP STICKING UP FOR HIS BROTHER. HIS BROTHER IS A CRIMINAL AND SHOULD BE HANG TO DEATH AND SO FOR ALL THIS DUMB STUPID YOUNG MEN . THEY ARE NO GOOD FOR SOCIETY AND SHOULD BE COMPLETELY WIPE OUT. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO START TAKING THINGS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS .
belichico… I agree with you 100% now thats what am talking about.