Convicted murderer on the run killed by police

Tonight a convicted murderer and rapist, on the run for more than a year, is dead. Twenty-five year old Estevan Sho was shot and killed by police today in an early morning raid in the village of Red Bank in the Stann Creek District. According to the police, on Thursday the department was tipped off that Sho was in the vicinity of Red Bank and Maya Centre. Around two this morning, officers from the Dragon Unit surrounded a small shack in Red Bank, believed to be Sho’s hideout. The cops say they identified themselves and ordered Sho to surrender, but the convict’s response was to shoot at them. Police fired back, and when the dust cleared, Sho lay dead from a bullet wound to the head. Near Sho, police found a three-fifty-seven magnum loaded with five live rounds of ammunition and a belt with fifteen live rounds strapped to his waist. Six three-fifty-seven expended shells and fifteen live thirty-eight bullets were also recovered from the scene. Sho’s body was taken to the Southern Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Police sources tell News 5 that a young woman from Red Bank has reported that last week while she was bathing at the river Sho had attacked her, but she managed to escape unhurt. Estevan Sho’s criminal career began in 1998 when he was arrested and charged with the murder of twenty-seven year old Raleigh volunteer Anna Lightfoot. Lightfoot was found dead off a bush path to the village of San Pablo in the Stann Creek District. She had been stabbed seventeen times to her chest, neck, arms, back and thighs, and her injures indicated she had struggled ferociously with her attackers right to the end. A jury later convicted Sho and fellow Red Bank villager Allan Cal, for the crime and both were sentenced to death. A subsequent appeal would later change their sentence to twenty-five years behind bars. Sho was also convicted of a rape that had occurred six months before the attack on Anna Lightfoot. After a year of incarceration, Sho escaped but was recaptured within days in Red Bank. Six months later Sho busted out of prison again, and despite several reported sightings of him in his neck of the woods, up to the time of his death, local law enforcement believed he was living in Guatemala. As for Sho’s accomplice: Allan Cal, he is serving his sentence at the Hattieville Correctional Facility.