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It happened on the seaside of the Coastal Town. Monica Bodden went to Punta Gorda today and we're just putting the finishing touches on her story now. But there's a Belize City element in the story as well. James Staine was from Belize City. He had gone to Punta Gorda to follow Kina. But now he's coming back in a coffin. His mother Michelle Swasey told us about his unfortunate end.

Michelle Swasey, mother of James Staine Sr.
"it was under a shed in PG that he killed the girl; he put the gun to her head and then he put the gun under here and then he shoot himself."

"It's hard for me because I know they were really in love but as I say I don't know what went wrong. I sympathized with Keena's mom and her family and I will miss her also because she was a good daughter-in-law to me and she gave me a wonderful grandson, so I really sympathized with them. I know what she is going through because I am going through the same thing right now and it hurts. I will not say my son is innocent. I don't know what happen during the other times. I know they have their arguments - I stop them because I don't encourage my kid to beat a woman or to do anything bad to a woman because I always tell them to remember that they have a mom and they wouldn't want anyone to beat their mom."

James Staine got his licensed firearm just a few months ago. Police found it loaded with 14 live rounds. There were 2 expended shells.

It is of note that James Staine's father Police Sargeant Leslie Staine died in a traffic accident 1996 when he was escorting then Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel to Belmopan.

We'll have the full story from Punta Gorda a little later on in the news.