Homeless man attacked in cemetery

If you thought the Carlos Seguro incident last month was heart-wrenching, the following story should fall right into that category. An elderly Belize City man was badly beaten overnight for reasons that are yet unclear. Simeon Montes whose regular place of residence is this shelter in Lord’s Ridge Cemetery was attacked early this morning as he slept on a concrete bench, allegedly by three masked men.

Simeon Montes, Attack Victim

“That’s about two o’clock when it happened, when they start to chop me up and I couldn’t see their face at all because they had masks and I was looking to see their face, but nothing doing. I couldn’t see them.”

Q: “Who did this to you?”

Simeon Montes

“Well its the same, I don’t know if it was Mortar, they thought it was Mortar, because they tell me give me what you have in your pocket. I tell them I have nothing. One twenty five cents I have, I no have nothing. And still them beat me up.”

Bloodied and dazed from the attack, Montes reportedly wandered up the Western Highway until he reached in front of the Belize Waste Control compound. There a security guard called the police who picked up Montes and took him to the Karl Heusner Memorial hospital. After being treated for bruises and several stab wounds to his body, Montes was released this afternoon. But, to add insult to injury, the elderly man was deposited back on the side of the Western Highway where police picked him up early this morning. According to employees at Belize Waste Control, when the cops dropped off Montes, they were heard to say that there was nowhere else to take him since his family did not want him. So until someone comes to his assistance, or something worse happens, the hard, cold concrete for a bed and a stone for a pillow are all that Montes has to cling to.