Police look for second suspect in OW murder

And in the murder of Chinese national Hui Lin Chen on Saturday night in Orange Walk Town, cops continue to hunt for a second suspect they consider armed and dangerous. Although police have not yet released the identity and details of this suspect, they have concentrated their search for him in the Belize and Orange Walk Districts, and say that he too has had a number of run-ins with the law prior to Saturday night’s murder. Meanwhile, the other suspect, ex-police constable, Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez is under police watch at the Northern Regional Hospital recuperating from injuries sustained during a crossfire in Saturday night’s incident in Orange Walk Town and is expected to be charged shortly.

Police strongly believe that Alvarez and the fugitive acted together on Saturday night when police officers, Constables Melanie Anderson and Roger Briceño and Special Constable Noel Castillo were shot. All are said to be well on their way to recovering from varying injuries they sustained in the confrontation.

Thirty-eight year old Hui Lin Chen was killed when his throat was slashed on the second floor of a three storey building on Lover’s Lane by a man who accosted him as he closed for business around nine-thirty that night. Chen worked across the street at an Ice Cream Parlour. While police believe that robbery was the motive, they are not linking this incident to at least four previous hold-ups in Orange Walk Town earlier that day.