Brother of murder victim plea for increased police patrols
Meanwhile, News Five caught up with Alfonso Xis, who is the brother of forty-two year old Angel Xis and the uncle of eighteen year old Marcos Xis, who were both victims in a bloody murder yesterday in Calla Creek Village. Police discovered the men’s red and white Toyota pick up with the bullet riddled bodies in the back abandoned on the left side of the Calla Creek Road about a mile away from the Bullet Tree Village. Alfonso Xis says Angel, who was heading to help his daughter build a house, was targeted by robbers looking for money.
Alfonso Xis, Brother of Angel Xis
“I was sleeping at that time. It was early morning around six to six-thirty. Then these two guys was coming to work to san Ignacio. By the time they were coming, like a mile before they come to Bullet Tree, those guys tried to rob them. I think they ask for money from them but they don’t have no money because they come for work. When you come for work you don’t have no money, you don’t spend nothing. So, maybe those guys asked for money and they have no money, hey can’t give no money. so that’s the time those guys get murdered.”
Marion Ali
“What kind of work do they do and was this the first time this happened to them … that they were robbed and help up?”
Alfonso Xis
“Yes, that’s the first time because actually he was coming to help his daughter.”
Marion Ali
“Who?”
Alfonso Xis
“Angel, because they were doing some concrete, cement concrete in San Ignacio. That’s why they were coming to her in the early morning because when you doing some concrete, cement stuff you don’t like to get the sun. By the time that somebody came there they told me that Angel was murdered. It was not only him. It was somebody else get attacked too. One of the neighbours from Calla Creek because we live in Santa Rosa and the other guy was from Calla Creek. So it’s like twenty minutes walking from where I live to the other guy. The guy, that’s the one who come to us that Angel was murdered. He get attacked before but he didn’t get hurt, he didn’t get nothing. He just get some like …maybe they just kick him. I don’t know because I didn’t really talk to him neither. I was rushing at the time.”
Marion Ali
“How many people did this to your brother and your nephew?”
Alfonso Xis
“Some people say five, some people say three. I really don’t know because I didn’t see nothing. I was late to come there. When I came there the police was there so I really don’t know if it was three or five.”
Officer commanding the San Ignacio Police Station, Senior Superintendent David Henderson, says police believe the gunmen are Guatemalans and that four men they had detained have been released for lack of incriminating evidence. Meanwhile, the remaining Xis brothers are appealing to police to beef up patrols in their area.
