2 men wanted for murder turn themselves in

After the shooting of fifty-three year old Armando Warren Gomez, a businessman from Orange Walk on April 15th, police launched a manhunt for suspects Alex O’Brien and Charles Stevens. Their search was unsuccessful, but almost one month later O’Brien and Stevens turned themselves in to police. Today they were escorted to Magistrate’s Court where they were charged with Gomez’s murder. Witnesses say on April 15th two men arrived at Gomez’s home in a pick-up truck with American license plates. When he approached the vehicle he was shot in the forehead. Gomez was rushed to Orange Walk Hospital in a critical condition and then transferred to Chetumal. He remained in a coma, however, and was brought back to the Orange Walk Hospital where he died on April Twenty second. Although the men appeared in Belize City Magistrate’s Court and will reappear on June 15th, the case will be tried in the northern judicial district where the crime was committed. O’Brien and Stevens, who appeared with their attorney Edwin Flowers, were denied bail and remanded to Hattieville Prison.