Hunting accident kills Cayo man
For as long as there have been hunters, there have been hunting accidents. Last night in the Cayo District a man lost his life after a colleague mistook his movements for those of a wild animal. Today, News 5’s Patrick Jones travelled out west and found that while the killing appears to have been an accident, the family is not convinced.
Patrick Jones, Reporting
Thirty-five year old Pablo Darimple Loague was shot dead overnight during a hunting expedition with two friends in the area of upper Barton Creek. While the friends, Sergio Castaneda and Clive Alford, say the killing was an accident, Pablo’s mother, Vincent Loague, says the story told to her by Alford does not add up.
Vincent Loague, Mother of Deceased
“Last night quarter past eleven Clive come and he tell me what happen. And I tell him you know what, my son dead, he noh living. And he said no, probably he live or probably he noh live. And then they gone straight dah Cayo.”
“He said like this, he said when Pablo get the shot, he say you see, he shoot me. So I say that there pills too big to swallow because if you get shot in your face, how I will tell you, you shot me? Could you? From the time you get a shot instantly in your face you noh have nothing more to say to nobody, nothing more.”
Police have detained Castaneda and Alford for questioning and have retrieved two weapons believed to have been carried by the hunters, one of which was possibly the gun that fired the fatal shots. Officer in Charge of San Ignacio Police, Gilroy Nicholas, says the incident was first reported shortly after midnight.
Gilroy Nicholas, O.I.C., San Ignacio Police
“Clive Alford visited the station and said he and Sergio Castellanos and Pablo Loague was in the Barton Creek area doing hunting. And whilst there they saw bush moving, and as a result Castellanos fired a shot and he heard screaming and when he went there he realised that it was his partner.”
Police visited the scene of the incident around twelve-thirty this morning, but did not retrieve the body until five hours later. Nicholas says preliminary information is pointing to an accident.
Supt. Gilroy Nicholas
“Well from what is reported to us, no foul play. It doesn’t seem that foul play is involved… They were hunting and there were two weapons that were recovered and our forensic people will be able to tell us after the autopsy which one of the weapons was used.”
Patrick Jones
“Do you believe that only two weapons were used on that hunting trip?”
Supt. Gilroy Nicholas
“Well I cannot say. The investigation is still underway.”
Vincent Loague
“Well I feel that it is a foul play. Something went wrong, because if he had his headlight on his head, that headlight would have mashed up on his head. But the head light nothing, noh do it.”
Patrick Jones, for News 5.
The family say they have received information that the gun Alford took on the hunting trip was borrowed from his brother. That brother was brought in for questioning by police this afternoon. Pablo Loague, also known as “Duck”, worked as a tour guide in the area. His funeral is set for Saturday afternoon in Georgeville.
