A Brother is Gunned Down Less Than a Day after Burying His Sister
Devin Amoa
Here in Belize City, another family is grieving the loss of one of their own. Around six-thirty on Monday evening, Devin Amoa was murdered in a most vicious way. The twenty-year-old had had dreams of becoming a nurse, but his life was cut short when an unidentified gunman made his way inside his yard and fired multiple shots at him. For the Amoa family, it is a double dose of pain because a few days ago, they laid to rest his sister. Here is News Five’s Isani Cayetano with a report.
Isani Cayetano, Reporting
The Amoa family is still grieving the death of a daughter whom they laid to rest on Sunday. Their son, twenty-year-old Devin, has also been taken away from them in a most cruel manner. On Monday evening, he was at home on Giles Street when death also came knocking.
Voice of: Brother of Deceased
“Dehn mi suppose to mi cohn ya fu mi kill somebody else but just that, yoh know, when yoh cyan ketch Harry, yoh ketch ih shirt.”
Reporter
“Your brother was very young, he was twenty and your sister told me that he wanted to start nursing school next year. Talk to us about the type of person he was and this young life gone too soon.”
Voice of: Brother of Deceased
“My bredda dah mi wahn hardworking man. Di man come outta school, di man actually finish fourth form because me and all ah my bredda them, me neva finish and di other two gaan da night school. He da mi di only one weh push through and finish fourth form and everything. Noh haftu change school, no nothing.”
At around 6:30 last evening, Devin was socializing inside this yard when an unknown individual pushed open the gate, entered and fired twice in his direction. He was mortally wounded. His sibling spoke under the condition of anonymity.
Voice of: Brother of Deceased
“I was not at home, I was at work trying to come home but I did not make it in time.”
Reporter
“So what did your family tell you? How did they fill you in?”
Voice of: Brother of Deceased
“Well when I came, I saw the blood, I saw the police, one ah dehn mi talk to me and ah end up di leff ya and ah gaan dah hospital and dah deh ih life mi end.”
According to the brother, Devin had all intentions of relocating from the neighborhood and pursue his dream of becoming a nurse.
Voice of: Brother of Deceased
“So far he seems like ih mi wahn do big things. Ih mi wahn go be wahn nurse, ih mih wahn move out from round ya. Ih mi got plans.”
Reporter
“Does your family feel any kind of fear, you know, that your home was targeted, essentially?”
Voice of: Brother of Deceased
“Fear, no. Da noh fear, I woulda seh anger and frustration. Dehn angry and frustrated but at this moment I have to be the one fu think fi everybody and mek sure that my people’s dehn safe. At the moment wih just di try bring everybody together and see how we wahn deal with this because mi sista just get buried Sunday and now we have to plan another funeral.”
Reporting for News Five, I am Isani Cayetano.
