Ex-gang leader murdered in club on Cemetery Road

Two men were murdered over the weekend and both homicides occurred on Cemetery Road in Belize City. The first one involved a well known ex- gang leader. Twenty-eight year old Leroy Rhaburn, better known as Red Ants, was fatally stabbed at a club at two a.m. on Saturday morning. Rhaburn was no stranger to the law and had a string of charges including illegal firearm possession and attempted murder. His wife, Lisa Garoy, was very distraught when News Five caught up with her and the victim’s brother this morning at her Taylor’s alley home, a short distance from the club in which Rhaburn was killed.

Lisa Garoy, Common Law Wife
“I just hear he get stab eena ih throat.”

Jose Sanchez
“And where did this happen?”

Lisa Garoy
“In front of the club, Kevin’s.”

Jose Sanchez
“You know who was he arguing with?”

Lisa Garoy
“I noh know cause dehn seh ih mi di argue wid lot ah people out deh ih mi di got argument wid.”

Jose Sanchez
“And then he was stabbed.”

Lisa Garoy
“Mhmm, eena ih neck.”

Elmer Gentle, Brother of Deceased
“My bredda, like actually nine o’clock ih mi deh dah my house weh I live. Like nine o’clock ih come dah my door mouth di ask me fi wah cigarette and thing check. When ih ask me fi wah cigarette nine o’clock I just gone in, lock my door and ih tell me ih wah roll off. So ih roll off and three-thirty dehn come knock dah my door. Dehn time deh ih look like ih mi gone dah Kevin’s Bar and ih mi deh wid couple ah ih friends and dehn neva acknowledge dat ih mi ketch eena argument wid wah old time friend.”

Jose Sanchez
“Is that Walter, better known as Welch?”

Elmer Gentle
“Yeah, definitely. Dah same night three-thirty when dehn come knock dah my door, dehn tell me yoh bredda just get dead and ih just get juck eena ih throat. Dehn ker ah dah hospital and ih dead upon di way going. So when dat happen and thing I couldn’t even do nothing.”

Lisa Garoy
“He used to give a lot of trouble and ih mi tell me ih stop and I si like ih mi slow down. I noh know how dis happen again.”

Jose Sanchez
“So you really weren’t expecting this and so close to home.”

Lisa Garoy
“Mhmm.”

Elmer Gentle
“He hold it down yoh know. He hold it down wah lot because ih got children and thing. Ih even come dah my door mouth and ih tell me seh he noh deh pan dehn time deh. He want mek it forward. Di way how ih di live ih life, ih have to di run, hide, ih noh got wah resting place so ih seh he neva deh pan dehn timing and he mi want move forward and try humble ihself eena life and try get weh he want get.”

Jose Sanchez
“He was known as Red Ants right?”

Elmer Gentle
“Yeah mein. Dah my bredda and I noh wah shame fi seh it. dah my bredda and ih done dead already. Every know he cause ih dah wah well known man to society.”

Police have since charged thirty-five year old taxi-driver, Walter Beaton, with Murder and when he appeared in court today, no plea was taken and he was remanded to prison until September seventeenth. Rhaburn was allegedly involved in a shooting incident on December seventeenth, 2005. And on that same night his common law wife and his son were shot at close range at their home. Garoy and her son Leroy Rhaburn junior survived that shooting. After the December Shooting, doctors believed Garoy wouldn’t be able to walk again. She has since overcome that adversity.