City resident is year’s fourth murder victim
Sixty year old Irma Cocom of Jane Usher Boulevard said she had just told her son goodbye when twenty minutes later she received the news that he had been shot. Twenty-five year old Bruce Cocom lay dead on Central American Boulevard by a shop where he had stopped to buy a drink. According to Belize City police, Cocom was standing outside of the establishment when a young man approached him. Witnesses told authorities the suspect pulled out a handgun and fired several shots in Cocom’s direction. Cocom was hit once in the left side of his chest and once in the right hand. His mother says she does not know why anyone would want her son dead.
Irma Cocom, Mother of Deceased
?Saturday night about a quarter to twelve, twenty to twelve, between them time he come home and about five to twelve or ten to twelve so he tell he going out back. But before that, he tell me seh he hungry, so I gone by the restaurant out gone buy a chicken and between me and he and the lee bwai, the three ah we share the chicken and we eat. So I say, Bruce bwai, you going to sleep now? He said no ma, I going out back, he seh, I got wah date out yah with a gyal. So I tell ah, Bruce I noh want you go out deh back because so much trouble out deh. I say, and you di drink. And I even tell ah he small and can?t tek care ah himself. So I tell ah, stay home. But he noh listen, he gone out. He gone out about five minutes to twelve and about ten or five minutes after that they come and they knock at the door and tell me Bruce get shot.?
?I believe that whosoever do it, I just hope that the police them find who and just give justice, you know. That dah weh I want, or the person come up and give himself up to the police station and say, “I do it” or whatever so they could serve justice.?
The police are appealing to anyone who can assist them in the investigation to call CrimeStoppers at 0-800-922-TIPS. The police say all information will be treated in the strictest of confidence and a reward of up to one thousand dollars is available for information leading to the arrest of the murderer.
