Phillip Roberts is Dispatched in a Hail of Bullets in Farmers Site
There was another murder over the weekend. On Saturday night, shortly after eight o’clock, police were called to Farmer’s Site in Hattieville, Belize District where another murder took place two weeks ago. Thirty-three year old Phillip Roberts of Bainsville village was executed in his own yard where he had just stepped out having had what turned out to be his last dinner. Roberts was ambushed by two gunmen who emptied their firearm on the father of two. Roberts was rushed to the K.H.M.H. but succumbed before he could get to the hospital. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports.
Isani Cayetano, Reporting
On Saturday night, thirty-three-year-old Phillip Roberts had just stepped outside to scrape the morsels from his plate when he was met with a shower of bullets from a pair of gunmen who were lurking inside his yard. In attempting to escape one attacker, Roberts ran to the back of the property into another shooter who virtually emptied his weapon on him.
Voice of: Sister of Deceased
“I get fi undastand that my bredda mi di eat and apparently ih get up fi throw out ih lee bones dehn outta di plate and when ih shub open di door fi throw out di bones, that da when di shots dehn start to fire. And ih look like he run fi come out, fi run go da back, maybe fi run go da bush and that da when another gunman mi eena di back di wait fi ahn, so he run come back out da front and that da when ih tek everything.”
Roberts was spared no mercy, his attackers ensuring that he would not survive the deadly ordeal.
Sister of Deceased
“We get fi undastand that ih tek thirteen shots. Dehn find twenty-two bullets eena dis yard. When dehn do di post mortem dehn wahn tell we how much more dehn find eena ahn, you know, but until then we lost.”
The incident, according to investigators, happened around eight o’clock that night. Roberts, a father of two, was waylaid and expunged.
Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, NCIB
“Around 8:03 p.m., police responded to a shooting incident in the Farmers Site area of Hattieville. Upon their arrival they found Phillip Roberts, thirty-three-years-old, with gunshot injuries. He was immediately taken to the KHMH for treatment and he succumbed to his injuries around 9:30 p.m. on the said date, Saturday.”
Reporter
“Have police received any information that maybe he had enemies that the family knows of sir?”
Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero
“Our investigators are out there at this time trying to ascertain what transpired or what connections to anyone.”
Reporter
“Sir, any information if any person or persons were seen in the area, fleeing the area?”
Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero
Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero
“No, we don’t have that information.”
Roberts’ murder comes on the heels of another fatal shooting incident on November twenty-ninth when twenty-six-year-old Richard Smith was also gunned down in the Farmers Site neighborhood. But are the two incidents related and why was Roberts marked for death?
Sister of Deceased
“It’s the same thing I want to know. Right now we di hyah all kinda thing but I noh wahn dehn pan hyah, you know, I just want the truth because my bredda noh trouble nobody. My bredda noh good either, I noh di seh ih good. If dehn mi seh ih thief I woulda mi feel betta because I know my bredda do den deh thing deh but my bredda noh tek nobody life, so ih no fair fi dehn tek fi he life, you know, and we noh wahn no revenge or nothing like weh nobody di think. We just wahn peace.”
Isani Cayetano reporting for News Five.
