Jealous husband fatally ambushes taxi driver wife

A little less than a year ago Belize was rocked by a string of murders committed by jealous men against women they ostensibly loved. Today history repeated itself on the lonely road between Hattieville and Burrell Boom. News Five’s Marion Ali has the tragic story.

Marion Ali, Reporting
Police have another brutal murder upon their hands tonight, this time, another case of a domestic affair gone sour. The incident occurred on the Boom Hattieville Road near the prison and claimed the life of forty year-old Raquel Requena. The suspect, Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez, an ex-B.D.F. soldier, reportedly followed Requena, who runs a taxi between Hattieville and the prison.

Requena had reportedly just picked up a fare at the prison when she was shot once in the head with a shotgun. The passenger, scared for her life, reportedly fled. Inspector Calbert Flowers said the suspect also tried to hang himself afterwards at a dumpsite near the entrance to Burrell Boom Village.

Inspector Calbert Flowers, O.C. Ladyville and Hattieville
“We are in the process of getting information from some guys who knew him and apparently rescued him from committing suicide.”

Marion Ali
“I understand just from raw information that I picked up out here that the bullet had to have been fired from another vehicle or at least from the side windows, it did not penetrate any of the windshields.”

Inspector Calbert Flowers
“I cannot say for certain at this time but we knew that suspect was in a vehicle but we do not know exactly how the incident happened.”

Marion Ali
“And there was a witness inside the victim’s vehicle as well?”

Inspector Calbert Flowers
“I am not sure, that is what we learned but we haven’t spoken with anyone who was in the vehicle or any eyewitness at this time.”

Police have since detained Bermudez, who met Requena’s nephew, Glen Fuller, told Fuller what he had just done, then asked him for the rope. Fuller said he never believed Bermudez at first, but was the one who ended up saving him from committing suicide.

Glen Fuller, Nephew of Murder Victim
“My auntie done left he already. My auntie done mi have wah next person so I think he di play. I neva know he really serious like that and thing.”

Marion Ali
“How he get the string from unnu?”

Glen Fuller
“We hustle cooper so we got the copper them by di string and the copper deh pan wah washing machine so he cut it off of it and he seh he gwine ketch wah cow. So when time he run dah bush he di tell we weh gone on and thing but we still neva believe ah.”

“I fell like I should ah mi lef ah fi mek ih heng, that’s it, or if I mi have something pan me I mi wah finish ah right there if I mi really know di real truth weh gone on.”

Although the news came as a shock to Requena’s oldest daughter, Floreth Requena, she said her mother had previously received numerous death threats from a jealous Bermudez. The most recent occurred about two weeks ago just before Bermudez moved out of her mother’s house.

Floreth Requena, Daughter of Murder Victim
“Well he threaten her. First this fight weh happen he threaten my ma…”

Marion Ali
“Da Kim’s?”

Floreth Requena
“Yes, da Kim’s. He threaten my ma da Kim’s. Fi he sister threaten my ma right front of my face cause da front of me and my sister it happen. Ih sister tell she watch it fi set fi she bredda go dah jail. Right now deh business fi go da court fi this and it noh call up as yet, ih noh call as yet. And weh happen she lef ah, ih lef ah, ih tell ah come out ah ih house but he dah noh somebody weh wah tek no fi wah answer. He dah nobody weh wah tek no fi wah answer. The lady tell me that this person, that “Bucket”, ih husband drive front of ih vehicle. When he drive front of the vehicle he haul wah long gun and the way how I see my ma dah straight to ih brain ih gone because dah wah hole straight to ih brain.”

Police told News Five that they have since retrieved the shotgun they believed was used in the murder.

Marion Ali Reporting for News Five.

Raquel Requena leaves behind seven children, the youngest of whom is three years old.