Murder on Compassion Street; tenants wanted

An elderly man was hacked to death at his Compassion Lane house by two tenants who showed no empathy for their landlord. The man did not live long enough to give details of his horrific and grizzly attack, but it is believed that it had to do with monies owed in rent. Marion Ali was in Ladyville and has a report from the scene of the crime.

Marion Ali, Reporting
The solitary blue house at fifty-eight Compassion Lane in Ladyville is no longer buzzing with activity as everywhere is locked up following the ghastly murder of the owner just before nine-thirty on Saturday night.

Following calls by neighbours that tenants had attacked their landlord, sixty-seven year old Candelario Elvira Flores, police responded but it was too late. Inside Flores’ home they discovered his body in a pool of blood. The motive for the slaying, according to police, was that the tenants did not want to pay for overdue rent.

Cpl. Jorge Lemus, Lead Investigator, C.I.B., Ladyville
“This male person had a misunderstanding with two of his tenants over some monies that was owed to him for rent. Hence, the reason that these people inflicted the chop wounds to him.”

Flores was hacked numerous times to the head and upper body and left for dead. He succumbed shortly after at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Cynthia Diaz, who lives in a neighbouring yard, says she heard the commotion from her house.

Cynthia Diaz, Neighbour
“Dehn mi have wah group and dehn seh we noh pay rent. Dehn seh dehn wah kill di man. Di old man mi gone sleep. He tek off ih clothes of go sleep and when ih come back and open di door, dehn hurt di man, dehn got machete fi kill di man.”

Marion Ali
“Did you hear the noise from your house?”

Cynthia Diaz
“I mi hear everything sake ah dehn mi di drink and dehn seh old man open di door fi mi. dehn wah tek weh ih phone, ih money; all ah ih thing. Dehn want fight fi di money.”

Marion Ali
“So you hear commotion?”

Cynthia Diaz
“I mi hear from right inna my house every time dehn come out and get in and dehn talk hard to di old man.”

Daniel Trapp was not around to fend for his long-time friend, but when we arrived at the scene, he was cleaning up Flores’ yard just as he normally would, had the deceased still been around.

Daniel Trapp, Friend of Deceased
“Ah know ah fi years. I know ah from ih move yah because dah me help ah build up and extend ih property when ih get it because when ih get di property, ih get it from another source acquaintance and ih tek it over and ih start develop it. And so far he has done well and develop it to such dimensions dat he developed here and his other house across di street on di other side over there.”

Marion Ali
“When was the last time you saw him?”

Daniel Trapp
“Friday, he was riding on a bicycle going to his house and when he passed ih seh “hola Rey. Dat’s what he call me, Rey. Every time he si mi, hola Rey; hello king. Dat dah di kinda guy Viejo is.”

But it appears the people Flores had rented the apartments to were not persons that had the same disposition he did. Tonight police are looking for two Central American nationals who were the tenants and have issued all-point bulletins to all police formations for the capture of: Honduran, twenty-five year old Elder Jonathan Ulloa and Guatemalan, twenty-two year old Jayro Gonzales. But even if justice is served both Daniel Trapp and Cynthia Diaz feel that the murderers took unfair advantage of an ageing Flores, who lived alone.

Daniel Trapp
“Dah my bally dat mein and I noh happy because I cant go dah ih wake because ih deh dah Armenia and I deh dah Ladyville.”

Cynthia Diaz
“Sake ah dehn noh want pay no rent, all ah dehn, dats why dehn kill di man fi nothing man.”

Marion Ali for News Five.