Victim’s ex-girlfriend detained in shooting death
On Saturday, a Belize City man was gunned down and left to die on the street. According to police reports, twenty-nine year old Mark Henry was on Waight Street in the Yarborough Area when he was shot twice. Police have since detained two people: Henry’s ex-girlfriend and another young man. While police have yet to file charges, Henry’s family is convinced the former lover is responsible for the crime.
Marian Henry, Mother
“Well my grandson mi the ride with ah and when he come tell we that he get shot, he tell we the boy just come up to him and shot ah. But the gal mi deh out deh, but she neva the, seh well they were in front ah one ah another fu fight or have no kinda conflict nor nothing. So when we gone out deh, we meet ah pan the ground, bicycle deh on his back, and my daughter tek off the bicycle off ah his back. And I no see why, because when she come here, she tell me if she no get ah, she wah kill ah, or she wah pay somebody fu kill ah. So I tell ah, once you wah kill ah, you wah eat ah.”
Janelle Chanona
“Who is she?”
Marian Henry
“Rose, Rose Andrews, the ex-girlfriend.”
Janelle Chanona
“So she tell you that she would hurt Mark?”
Marian Henry
“She tell me that she wah kill ah, without a doubt in her face.”
Janelle Chanona
“And she was there on Saturday when he got shot?”
Marian Henry
“According to my grandson. I wasn’t out there, so I wouldn’t say that she mi deh out there. When we get out deh we neva even see she out deh, we just see just Mark on the lone ground.”
Janelle Chanona
“Mark just come out a Hattieville [Prison]?”
Marian Henry
“Yes, he come out 2 o’clock Friday.”
Reliable sources tell News 5 that the young woman in question called police after the incident and confessed involvement in the killing, but later retracted the statement. The young man detained has been identified to us as Jason “Soup” Williams.
