Belize City brothers convicted of mechanic’s murder

In April 2006, Belize City mechanic Mitchum Heredia was gunned down by two armed assailants. Police would later arrest and charge nineteen-year old Emory Felix and twenty-one year old Maurice Felix with the murder. During the four-day trial this week, both men took the stand in their defence to maintain their innocence. But today the case against the accused brothers ended before Justice Adolph Lucas with the jury delivering a guilty verdict. Following the decision, the victim’s family told us justice has been served.

Kenny Moss, Stepfather of Murder Victim
“I just hope that they could have the same heart like weh I have. I dah noh no juror or anything like that but the law wah tek it’s course as I seh before and the Bible seh thou shall not kill mein. There’s a penalty for that. So if man noh do it, some way it will happen, you understand what I’m saying. So, thou shall not kill.”

Janelle Chanona
“Have you been able to forgive, or at least come to terms?”

Umbilina Carrillo Moss, Mother of Murder Victim
“Yes, I noh have grievance against the family. I am sorry for the family of the two boys but they have done something wrong and this is the way they have to pay the penalty for their wrong that they did”

Kenny Moss
“It always happen that like after when they di change their life, something happen. That sad you know because sometime you noh even gat time fi pray when situation like this happen like when somebody come to you with a gun or anything like that. We supposed to di pray everyday.”

Justice Lucas has set sentencing for October twenty-sixth. Attorney Michael Peyrefitte defended the Felix brothers, while crown counsel Tracy Sosa prosecuted. Mitchum Heredia had just pulled into his driveway on T Street when two men jumped from behind a tree in his yard and shot him multiple times.