A 19-year-old Faces Murder Charge Following “Scrub Board’s” Death

Stephan Bowen

Nineteen-year-old Stephan Bowen is facing a charge of murder, following the death of Elroy ‘Scrub Board’ Saldano who was shot while riding a bicycle in the vicinity of Belize Water Services on October fifteenth.  The forty-nine-year-old succumbed to a single gunshot injury to the back on Tuesday, while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.  In the wake of the shooting, Belize City police picked up Bowen who was subsequently indicted on counts of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm.  It is expected that those charges will be upgraded to murder.  Earlier today, News Five spoke off-camera with Lorna Theus who raised Saldano from childhood.

Voice of: Lorna Theus, Aunt of Deceased

“They don’t have to chance him out of his life.  They don’t know how [many] hearts they’ve hurt, okay.  He maybe has his ways, but he doesn’t kill, he doesn’t jack, he don’t do nobody nothing and they didn’t have to chance him out of his life.  I want the guy to know if he would like anybody do his family that.  Elroy has family, he has aunts, he has uncles, he has decent family and I want them to see his funeral when time, okay.  I’m his aunt, I partly raised him them.  I got them from baby, in Belize, in Los Angeles where they’re at.  I want him to think about it because he hurt a lot of hearts mein.  I’m his aunt, his favorite aunt by his father’s side, so he doesn’t know.  Elroy just di ride ‘round and like that but he noh hurt nobody, he help people mein.  I want this punk to think about what he did, okay.  He hurt a lot of heart.”