Two teens killed in Orange Walk
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Only two weeks ago, a heinous triple murder was reported in Carmelita Village, one of the victims was a fourteen year old boy whose parents were also killed. Tonight there is a double homicide of two minors to report also in the Orange Walk District. The two were killed at around one o’clock on Sunday afternoon at the remote Village of San Carlos. A third person is hospitalized. The motive has not been determined but there is speculation that it may linked to marijuana plantations in the area, which today was still fraught with danger. A News Five crew met resistance from a group of armed men while on assignment in the secluded area. Marion Ali files this report.
Marion Ali, Reporting
This is the ranch three miles out of San Carlos Village, Orange Walk where a man and two youths were viciously attacked and hacked with machetes and left to die.
Two died – sixteen year old Wilson Perez and seventeen year old Rudy Interiano, two youths who had been struggling to help their families to make life.
The third victim, thirty three year old Damacio Pop, remains hospitalized in the Northern Regional Hospital with chop wounds to his head and four fingers missing.
The bizarre incident is one that has left the villagers of San Carlos in shock. In particular, Elsa Perez, said her eldest child, fifteen year Wilson, left home early Sunday morning to finish work he had already started on the ranch when he was chopped to death.
Voice of: Elsa Perez, Mother of Wilson Perez
“My son noh faas wid nobody. Just the work fi help maintain ih lee sistah deh. That da all weh he do. Everybody surprise weh happen. They noh get inna no trouble. Deh alright. They just go work, come home and done.”
Santos Tregieros, Grandmother of Rudy Interiano
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“I find out because when deh mi bring di man weh mi get hurt, dah sake ah dat she find out. I find out that ih son get ina accident and then my son get eena accident then the news, everything weh we mi deh di hear. It give we wah flash dat yes the bway mi dead. As far as I know, ih mi di do some holes to bury some posts.”
Ernestine Briceno’s husband who took care of the ranch, Tiburcio, was luckier than the others and he managed to escape before the attackers got to him. But even she is also worried for his safety.
Ernestine Briceno, Wife of Caretaker of Ranch
“My husband mind the ranch.”
Marion Ali
“What happened to him?”
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Ernestine Briceno
“Well nothing happened to him.”
Marion Ali
“Where is your husband now?”
Ernestine Briceno
“Well I noh know weh ih deh right now because he mi deh dah the ranch so they find help. So I noh know weh he deh right now.”
Marion Ali
“What’s the whole dispute about?”
Ernestine Briceno
“We really don’t know, we don’t know why. Dah mi something sudden one weh happen.”
Police say that a group of about eight armed men handcuffed and attacked the two youths and also assaulted Damacio Pop, who is hospitalized. Marion Ali for News Five.
Our team was confronted by a group of about twenty men, armed with guns and machetes, who were heading to the village. We were stopped and when we tried to investigate, we were told not to videotape them and that we should leave the area. We did and went in search of the ranch outside of the village and returned later, by which time, the armed villagers were nowhere in sight.
The hidden cancer here is the drug business that corrupts too many people. Instead of closing our eyes to it, we need to face it and wipe it out before it is too late.
It cannot be the water, so it must be something in the air, even the country folks can’t hold wah civil discourse noh. Vigilante justice is a solution to our piss poor conviction rate but it may not be a good one.
We cannot have villagers threatening reporters with weapons because whether or not the other residents realize it, they too become captives & we cannot have pockets of the country under mob rule, take a good look at what it has done to Belize City.
Nothing is wrong with a teenager having a job but it is not our children’s responsibility to support their siblings. If these children were working on a marijuana farm to help support their families the parents need to stop pretending to be shocked & accept some of the blame. Pot farms are illegal & a magnet for violence. We always counted on the people in the villages having a little more integrity, please return to your roots..
First of all, why are these kids working on a darn ranch to help make money for their families, instead of going to school?
This case is similar to what happened to the two little kids that went missing weeks ago. Where are the leaders to help enforce the rule that children under a certain age must attend school? I am sick and tired of parents in Belize using their kids to make money, because they are too darn lazy to get a job to take care of their families.
They play a big part in the deaths, or kidnappings of their children these parents should be prosecuted for exploiting their kids this way.
After this news was reported to the police there should have been helicopters, and the entire police force armed with guns and missiles surrounding that area to find those animals and their weed plantations.
The Unmanned Helicopter could really help out; this could be a Breakthrough.
WTH????? Armed men ran off the reporters? I hope police investigate this fully. R these men responsible for the deaths of these teens? Do they know who is?
well mr barrow i hope your satisfied two more murders to your list and still nothing is being done to bring back the hanging penalty how can you sleep at night knowing that you had a chance to do something about all these murders and you have done nothing nothing come on belizeans lets demand demand the hanging penalty we cant wait for barrow to open his eyes he is walking arount belize in a fog of stuper and denial bring back the hanging penalty bring it back now enough is enough resign barrow resignnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn your useless.
I hate when things like this happen “PEOPLE PLEASE STOP HAVING KIDS IF U CAN’T PROVIDE FOR THEM” it is so not fair to bring children into this world so they can help their parents carry their burden uno stop f?….ing ….. mains or use protection….but come on main Belizeans unu bruk outa da bad style, life haaad unu hole unu …… to unu self and stop bearing children..I AM SO ANGRY SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW.
So….. ARE WE BETTER ……… B4 INDEPENDENCE OF AFTER?????
So ….. are we ANY BETTER NOW ………………….. ……. …….or B-4 INDEPENDENCE???
WHAT WAS THE PLAN FOR ………. after INDEPENDENCE??????
SOMETHING SEEMS TO HAVE GONE WRONG SOMEWHERE…………..
Someone needs to touch base with GEORGE PRICE and see ……. Whassup????
Life is hard in belize the gov is not doing nothing to stop all the violence. The gov is making money on taxes,crude oil, sugar cane and all the rest of export they do. They cannot create jobs for the people of Belize so people will find others means to make money.
I hate for what happen to these teenagers I think the family members are to blame. But like what I said life is hard in Belize you going to do what you got to do to make money for a living.
And their is a price for doing good things and also their is a price for doing bad.
If we read the bible in Colossians 3;22-25 It says you slaves be obedient in every thing to those who are your masters in a fleshly sense, not with acts of eye service, as men pleasers,but with sincerity of heart, with fear of Jehovah. What you are doing, work at it whole-heart as to Jehovah, and not to men , for you will receive the due reward of the inheritance. Slave for the MASTER CHRIST. certainly the one that is doing wrong will receive back what he wrongly did, and there is no partiality.
So we see that bible make us know how to make good choices.
I guess marijuana business is very tuff.
You deal with the drugs – sooner or later you get killed….
my question is why the hell can immigrants hold up a village with no media access, people i use to go through there for trips and lone immigrants live there and they have the audacity to control such a small village. what are we doing belizean letting a village mobb control,when we can do the same here in the city. see what i mean, if the can do that well i guess we can control the city against the thuggs here.
they were the scapegoats, we need to know who the farm belong to, and if there is any connection to any of the people that deal with drugs, and parents need to be careful of who their children work with, all this sound fishy fishy, who are the people that stop the press?? Was there any police officers in the area?? People need to start to make good choices.
Carmelita and other village in the north are famous for crimes from way back, years ago whe those little girls were murdred form Belize city, their belongings were found up North in OW, while the bodies were found in Belize city. HMM, the lady whose husband is missing should be check, he is from over the border!!!!
why the hell isn’t the government doing something about letting these immigrants come into the country and set up shop in secluded areas. children working at marijuana farms, mobs with guns and machete telling the press where they can and can’t go? what? are they forming their own government within our country? The country is going to hell in a hand basket and the government is sitting around twiddling their little thumbs. Wake up mr barrow and do your damn job! Bring Belize back on the straight and narrow path by driving out these thuggs and drug dealers who are poisoning and killing our youth!
I am taid of telling you that the mexican Zetas are in Belize. GOB needs to take them head out of their laurels and decide if they are going to give the country to the dogs or take it back.
I hope the 20 armed villagers were going after the person responsible. They always know who are responsible even though they do not tell the police or the media. But I like that they were attempting to do something about it as a group, a community, a people, a family.
This is what the creole people lack. We can’t come together as one.
Am I hearing this right the reporters got on the seen before the cops, where were the cops when all this was going on. Does the citizens have more trust in the reporters to take action than in the police whose job it is to handle these situations, I think that if reporters are going to go into a remote area like this they should try and coordinate their move with the police force I understand that it is their job to give the news but this could have been a dangerous situation for them at least if the cops were there they could have taken action on those villagers.
I have read all the trash that people have written on this sad story that happened to those guys that were killed. I think that before writing any silly comment the person must know the reasons of the acts. First off all the poor teenagers were not drug dealers, nor had nothing to do with drugs. They were working for thir daily bread and some bad men approach to them and killed them with no reason, secondly it is sad to know that their are people in this country that call us immigrants just because we leave in remote areas. that person that called us immigrants should go to San Carlos and verify that. (if he or she has the guts)
Another thing that i want to clarify is that the media was not chased by the villager, they were sent away by the policemen who were doing the investigation at that moment. after the police left from the village, the villagers simply did not spoke with the media personel but at my knowledge that could never be that they were chased. .