It was all caught on security camera which we showed you on 7News last night. Police say that led them to the suspects - both of whom were arrested today. We learned more in a press briefing this evening at the Raccoon Street police station:...

Supt. Hilberto Romero, OC CIB - Eastern Division
"We have arrested 2 persons Keon Dennison and Tyler Mead, they will be charged for this murder. We would like to thank the public for their assistance. We had several tips that we followed up and this lead to the arrest of these two persons."

Insp. Alejandro Cowo, CIB Prct. 1 & 2
"The two suspects that we have at this time, they were detained at different times with different places. One was detained in a pre-dawn operation this morning and the other one was just about 2 hours ago. As we mentioned, the phone belonging to the deceased was found with the second person. Presently we are tracing back to all persons that he dealt with so that we can link up to gather more evidence regards in dealing with the phone."

Sr. Supt Chester Williams, Commander, Eastern Division Southside
"They are two young persons. One of them is 19 and I think the other one is not even more than 20 as well - two young people and one is from Maskall and one is from Dangriga. So you would see why they are not persons who been known to us, in terms of being involved in criminal activities in Belize City."

Insp. Alejandro Cowo, CIB Prct. 1 & 2
"One is from Dangriga. Very seldom comes to Belize City and the other one is from Maskall. So that when we had that first footage, we didn't have that knowledge of who these two persons were. But again, with the cooperation with the people, we give them many thanks. Because if it was not for them, we wouldn't get to them as quick as we had done today."

Sr. Supt Chester Williams, Commander, Eastern Division Southside
"Thanks to Channel 7, Mr. Vasquez and his crew who assisted us in editing the video and made it available to the broadcast on Channel 7 Last night and that assistance that they gave us was significant in the breakthrough we got in the investigation."

Supt. Hilberto Romero, OC CIB - Eastern Division
"We know that they did not have any prior history. The information is that they randomly targeted that business place. We have established that the motive for that was robbery."

Jules Vasquez
"If it was a robbery attempt. What caused it to go wrong so quickly? Because you know in one second literally it escalated from a confrontation to murder."

Supt. Hilberto Romero, OC CIB - Eastern Division
"We know that at some point that there was a struggle at which point one of the assailants fired that single shot towards the deceased. The information that we have gathered is that business place was randomly selected. It's at the end of Vernon Street. We know that there is no security posted there. So they randomly choose that particular business and targeted that area."

Jules Vasquez
"If you've seen the stuff, they seem to have reacted in a adhere trigger and not out of a practical 'okay, well we will do this.'"

Supt. Hilberto Romero, OC CIB - Eastern Division
"That is what it appears to be. At some point, the person who had the firearm seems to just have fired that shot after there was a small struggle with the deceased."

Sr. Supt Chester Williams, Commander, Eastern Division Southside
"If somebody comes to rob you, do not have a struggle. At the end of the day I think that the premises of Mr. Perez had reasonable good surveillance cameras and therefore if it was only a robbery, we would still have been able to apprehend those persons. So, it's an unfortunate situation. I guess it is something that only he would have been able to say why he reacted the way he did. Unfortunately he was killed senselessly. But I think that at the end of the day like you rightly said, if they come to rob, its money. Surrender the money and leave the work to the police to try and apprehend them afterwards."

Supt. Hilberto Romero, OC CIB - Eastern Division
"The stolen phone from the deceased has also been recovered."

Sr. Supt Chester Williams, Commander, Eastern Division Southside
"Yes they are amateurs and like you have also pointed out, you could see in the video, they are not persons who would seem to be stable handling a gun. So, its things that we need to look at and going into the Christmas anti-crime campaign again, what we impress on our officers is to do more stop and search. Especially when they are policing these hotspots, the business area and we must be able to target those persons who we know have the propensity of committing crime."

Williams says Police will be beefing up their presence and stepping up patrols with the launch of their Christmas anti-crime campaign on December third. As for the 500 dollar reward that was offered through crime stoppers for any information leading to their arrest - well no one will claim it, because the persons who had the information didn't call crime stoppers, they called police directly. But Williams says they are grateful for the help and he will try to raise some reward money from the business community to pay them.