Family wants to know why corporal’s life ended so brutally
Delita Moody
Earlier we reported on the police version of the killing of Corporal Gavin Sanchez. This morning we caught up in Belize City with the family of the deceased officer which is still reeling from his shooting death. Sanchez’ aunt, Delita Moody, told News Five that her nephew has been working in San Pedro for about three years and as far she knows he has had no beef with Sergeant Reyes. So she wants to know what he could have done that so brutally ended his life.
Delita Moody, Aunt of Deceased
“I call di offer in charge dis morning and he told me dat my nephew was socializing last night and was drinking and after he left from where he was he went to some other club dat di sergeant was working. I don’t know what happened between him and di sergeant but they take him and locked him down in the cell and he got away from the police station and went looking for the sergeant. He told me that somebody whap di sergeant with a pipe in his head and I don’t know weh transpire afta dat. Dehn just start shoot up one another or something. I really noh know because I wasn’t there. I would ah want know weh really gone on because dehn noh wah tell yoh weh really gone on. Dehn wah cover up and dis dah di second person fi me dehn shot. Last year July dehn shot my son, ex-PC Clarence Leslie and up to now dehn noh arrest nobody and I still di wait fi answer from dehn and I can’t get no answer from dehn right now and we really, really sad right now. Dis dah lone stupidness. I think dis killing have to done. I noh know why if dat mi—wid two police. Dis dah lone stupidness. I noh si weh he do so dat ih lead to dat, dat dehn shot he up like dat. We noh si di body yet but I hear ih get several shots. I noh really know weh transpire out deh. I need some answers right now because he noh even have a mother. Fi he mother died from he was small. We noh want no cover up. We want di truth ah weh happen. We noh want dehn di tek side pan nobody. We really want hear weh happen, weh gone on. We noh want hear no cover up because dat dah fi dehn thing. Di first thing dehn wah seh dah oh dah fi he fault and dehn thing. We really want know weh gone on wid dis incident.”
“He mostly kept to ihself but ih dah always wah jovial person and like dat, at least to ih family and ih friends dehn. And ih always respectful cause he dah always wah yes ma’am, no ma’am. I noh know otherwise outside right.”
Sanchez leaves behind a by wife Taralee and two children who live in Belize City. He is also survived by a brother who resides in San Pedro.
