1st Murder of 2024 is Belizean-American Starting Family Business
Christon Logan
The first murder of 2024 is that of Belizean-American, thirty-four-year-old Christon Logan, a resident of the United States. Logan left Belize in 2017 for his home country and has been living and working there since then. He was reportedly working two jobs in order to help his family back home with a recreational business that he had planned to open for his birthday in July, when he would have visited Belize again. Part of that plan has been dashed by his murder early Sunday morning. But his sisters told News Five that they will continue with his dream to complete the construction of the restaurant and bar and to open it as planned, and to name it after his one-month-old daughter. Marion Ali reports.
Marion Ali, Reporting
Thirty-four-year-old Christon Logan was scheduled to depart Belize on Tuesday to return to Oakland, California to his one-month-old baby daughter and his two jobs. The American-born was only in Belize on a brief business trip in Independence Village where his family resides. Instead, they are planning his funeral for this coming weekend. His two sisters, Classique Linarez and Cindy Logan said they accompanied him to the nightclub in Bella Vista on Saturday night. Neither of them was there when he was gunned down.
Classique Linarez
Classique Linarez, Sister of Christon Logan
“Well, ih mi supposed to be come from Christmas, but something came up, so he come like the third, and his visits are to build a restaurant. So, he come two days, he work on the restaurant and on Saturday, he says Sis, well, I know you work and nuh have time fi wi. Soh, wi wa ketch up tonight. Soh, Saturday night we gone out with him and everything. I had my time with him and, like [around] 10.30, I tell ah, Bredda, I nuh usually stay out late, soh I gwein home.”
Cindy Logan
Cindy Logan, Sister of Christon Logan
“We reach ya come have a lee fun time, me and my bredda, and like mussi one-forty-five soh we gone home. I mek sure my bredda reach home, reach pahn ih top step. A young man weh stay da mi sister house open the door. Mi bredda say I nuh ready fi goh inside yet, Sis. I wa sit down right ya soh pahn this ya top step. Then, three of his friends come and next thing my bredda say, Sis, I gwein right deh soh goh get a couple drinks by one of the neighbors around the corner. He say, I just go get some drinks, and I wa come right back. Ih say, noh goh home. Sit down right ya and wait fi mi. Well, I sit down and I wait fi mi bredda. When I look, half an hour after, one ah my bredda come, one ah my sista man come. He said, “Cindy, you check pahn your bredda?”. I tell ah, “Which bredda?” because we have four bredda. So he say, “Christon,” he say, “mi gial just call mi di say they shut up Christon and Christon dead da Heart Beatz. I tell ah, “How my bredda dead da Heart Beatz and I just bring he from deh?”
The siblings learned that their brother had returned to the establishment to pick up someone and accidentally stumbled into another man upon his exit. That was what led to his deadly encounter.
Cindy Logan
“When everybody di come outside, we get fi understand that my brother buck pahn the bwai bredda by mistake. You know, everybody di rush out cause da one way in and one way out, if you could see. One door to go in and one door to come out. He buck pahn the bredda shoulder by mistake. When he reach out ya the accused shot ah in ah ih foot first. When my brother drop, ih get over ah and he finish shot up ah. When ih done shot up her now, jump eena ih vehicle, gone. Ih next bredda come – when he done jump eena fi he vehicle, the next bredda come, and the next brother – the same one weh ih buck pahn – come and punch up my bredda eena ih face and kick ah when he done dead pahn the ground deh soh, Miss.”
Christon Logan
Cindy Logan says her brother was not a troublemaker.
Cindy Logan
“Man everybody buck pahn one another when they di come outta club. Yoh nuh need fi haul out gun fi that and yoh done shot the man eena ih foot, man. Left ah deh nuh man? Why you wa get over ah? You mean fi kill this man. My bredda da wa humble person. He da American. He come home one week fi try finish ih business weh ih mi wa do. Ih building deh da Mango Creek. My bredda nuh got no problem with nobody. Anybody from Mango Creek, you ask about Christon Logan. “Oh, da wa humble and respectable lee young man.”
Marion Ali
When did he go live in the U.S?
Cindy Logan
“From 2017 he gone. Miss, and ih do very good. Da man work with Tesla.”
The sisters didn’t appreciate the fact that police had someone outside of the family identify their brother before taking him off to the morgue.
Christon Logan
Cindy Logan
“She jump pahn ih phone and call the police station. The police tell ah yes, wa incident like that happened just a while ago. So she ask dehn, “My bredda dead? Weh happen?” Ih say, “Yes, yoh bredda dead. So she ask dehn, Classique ask dehn if they could please wait because 15 minutes from Mango Creek to ya, Miss. “And we di come eena wa vehicle. Wi done deh pahn wi way. Please wait fi mek one ah wi could identify ah. When we reach up ya now, somebody done identify fi we bredda weh da nuh a family member, done got ih wallet, tek out social card, do whatsoever he want with that. Police allow that. One ah the same friend weh bring ah hand Classique the wallet.”
Now as the family prepares to lay Logan to rest, they are also sad for his first child, a baby girl born only a month ago.
Cindy Logan
“That da the man first daughter. His daughter one month. That poor baby deh soh wa grow up without a father because ah dehn people deh and dehn simpleness. Da man first child.”
Marion Ali for News Five.
