Police Investigate Murder of Oscar Rubio
Sgt. Isaias Sanchez
Police are currently investigating a murder in Belize City – that of thirty-eight-year-old Oscar Richard Rubio. The investigation started on Thursday, when law enforcement officers were informed of a death by the KHMH and called to the morgue. But here’s the thing. It was Police officers who took Rubio to the KHMH on July thirtieth, bleeding from injuries to the head. They dropped him off there, along with another man, also wounded, and apparently just forgot about him, until they saw him in the morgue yesterday. So, two weeks after Rubio received the wound which eventually killed him, Police have now launched an intensive investigation. Today CIB Investigator Sergeant Isaias Sanchez took us back to the initial intervention by Police.
Sgt. Isaias Sanchez, .C.I.B., Precinct 1
“Police responded to information at the constitution park located on cemetery road in Belize City. Where they saw two male person highly under the influence of alcohol bleeding from the head where they have head injuries. The police assisted both male persons escorted them to the K.H.M.H. for medical attention, One of the male person was Oscar Richard Rubio and the other person was identified as that of Danri Darum a 57 year old Belizean national. Police so far have concluded that Oscar Richard Rubio was in the Conch Shell Bay area where he was approached by a male person and was attacked inflicting this head uinjury on him. So far we have two person in custody pending investigation. We still confirming and analyzing the investigation. On the fourteenth day of August 2014 the forensic specialist conducted a post-mortem on the body of Oscar Richard Rubio and certified that the cause of death was that of cerebral enema due to head trauma. So far it’s concluded the cause of death is of unnatural case and that’s the reason we are investigating the case of murder.”
After the initial incident Police simply escorted the men, both intoxicated, to the KHMH. The cause of the wounds was not determined, and no follow-up investigation was conducted. Sanchez, somewhat sheepishly, told media today that the Police are faced with their own challenges.
