3 Week Later, Wayne Welch is Charged for the Attempted Murder of Dawn Parchue

Wayne Welch

In late August, we reported on a shooting incident on Mahogany Street where Dawn Parchue had been shot multiple times to the body. The attempt made on her life was as a result of an altercation minutes earlier with a group of persons at a restaurant in the area.  Three weeks later, police were able to detain the alleged shooter, who had been on the run. On Friday, police formally arrested and charged twenty-four-year-old plumber Wayne Welch with the crime of Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm.

Alejandro Cowo

ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City

“She was involved in a dispute an establishment in the Mahogany Street area with some people and as she left from the establishment, that is at a distance that she was shot several times. He was one of the persons that she had an argument at the restaurant.”

Reporter

“Is there a reason why it took weeks to make an arrest?”

ASP Alejandro Cowo

“He was on the run.”