A Belizean tour guide has been killed in Guatemala - he was brutally beaten to death.
The family of 17 year-old Juan Ramon Mis, a Belizean tour guide who moved from San Ignacio Town to Flores Peten in Guatemala, is preparing to bury him tonight.
Yesterday, Mis, who had been living in Guatemala for almost a year, was walking from his new home to his workplace in Flores, Peten.
It is a route he takes every day from his house to the office, which is run by his father, so no one believed that he was in any danger.
But yesterday, a group of men ambushed him, robbed him down to his underwear, and beat him to death.
7News caught up with his family in San Ignacio, and they told us that for the kindhearted individual he was, his violent death is so obscene, that they still can't believe it.
Here's what they told us about the very little they actually know:
Elisa Mis - Mother of Deceased
"He was working with another guide that runs an agency. Just last week Friday I went with him and I spoke to him and he gave me a hug and a smile that I didn't expect, I am shock about this. He was robbed and beaten to death. When the ambulance reach there to the place where they found him he was bleeding and he was alive still but he didn't make it to the hospital. He got drowned in his blood."
Juan Mis - Father of Deceased
"It was an assault, I imagine, for defending himself, but they found him with only his boxer briefs, without clothes, shoes, and all bloodied up. He had a big wound in the middle of his head and with a bruised eye, and over on the side of his neck as well. It was maybe about 4 or 5 assailants."
Elisa Mis - Mother of Deceased
"I feel proud as I reach Flores, Guatemala - the people, the friendship, the relation that he had with those people for the first time that he went to Flores - those people told me that Jaun Ramon was a good boy, he didn't interfere with anybody. When I reach at my mother in law - they didn't want to tell me what happen because they didn't want me to feel the way that I feel now. The way that they kill my son I cannot accept that, I would rather them to take the money but don't kill him." (Crying)
"They kill my son, it's a shock to me."
The family will make arrangements to bury him tomorrow in San Ignacio, the town where he grew up.
At this time, we can't give you any information about Guatemalan police investigation into this matter, because when we contacted Belizean Police, they told us that their counterparts had not briefed them as yet.
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