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Today Monica Bodden went to George Street to speak with family members about their loved ones, their lost ones:..

Voice of: Cousin of Ghost
"I got up this morning to go to work and when I came out I saw a lot of people on Plues Street. When I heard that my family got shot I went to see what was happening. When I went upstairs, one of the young men that they call "Long John" has a hole in his throat and a cut across his face and my family was sitting down in a chair with a big slice across his neck. That young man doesn't mess with anybody - the other 3 are into gang yes but the other one - they killed him too. This is simpleness. The GSU told me when I went to station that George Street men who are not dead are going to jail for the rest of their life. We are trying to calm down - you see they arrest any George Street men yet? Nothing like that. This is 6 now, we just loss two, my family that got killed was working, he doesn't mess with nobody."

"When they brought down my family "Ghost" - his face was not even covered. They want us to see how they did it to him. All the rest of faces were covered."

Monica Bodden
"We understand that Ghost was in Manatee up until last night?"

Voice of: Cousin of Ghost
"He was in Manatee; he doesn't stay around here much. When he comes he stays right here and the reason why he moved from around here was for the same reason. He went to Manatee - to village just to live a better life."

Marlon Yorke
"As I entered I saw one body lying on the stomach. I was looking for my stepson - when I saw him around the curve - it's just sad. The first body was covered in blood and my stepson was lying in blood."

Monica Bodden
"Tell me about his injuries, what did you notice?"

Marlon Yorke
"His face was dug out and his whole throat was missing - was just a bloody scene. I saw it all and you know when something is a statement - I believe it was a statement and yes by the police. Neighbors say they heard screaming and stuff but they wasn't thinking that that was going on."

Monica Bodden
"Tell me what position was he found in?"

Marlon Yorke
"He was found on his back like he was fighting."

Voice of: Resident of the area
"If it was me and my child had gotten killed I would get a gun and murder a policeman and die along with my child. The police supposed to be the law and if it was my child I would murder a policeman and die with my child."

Loraine Baizar, Aunt of Anthony Perez
"I never got a chance to see it because the police didn't want us to see it. But when they passed with the body you could see his face all sliced up."

Monica Bodden
"Did you went to the morgue?"

Loraine Baizar
"No but my sister went to the morgue, his mother."

Monica Bodden
"Do you understand what happened? I understand your nephew resided up at the apartment."

Loraine Baizar
"Yes he rented the upstairs and he lived up there, so I guess when they attack the other 3 men he must have seen it and they killed him too."

Reporter
"It was a brutal killing. Do you know why anyone would want him dead?"

Loraine Baizar
"I have no reasons to think that anyone wanted him dead because he is not a gang banger. He is just a working man helping my sister cook food to sell."

Voice of: Cousin of Ghost
"Two of them lived there. They can't go anywhere to lived - there are about 8-10 rooms upstairs. It is only pig that you slaughtered like that. It's because a case was coming up against the GSU."

Monica Bodden
"You guys strongly believe that it was police officers responsible for the slaughtered of these 4 men?"

Voice of: Cousin of Ghost
"Ma'am we know it's the GSU. The passed through my mom yard this morning. The happen like after 2-3 because the blood from the men is still hard, so this just happen."

Reporter
"We understand that it was the rain as well as all the TVs were on maybe to drowned the sound of them being attacked by whoever."

Voice of: Cousin of Ghost
"Ma'am that door cannot open that easy, so if anybody comes to rush them that would not happen. The only person who they open door for is the police because when they come they come in a hectic kind of way - they come like they want to kill someone any minute, any day. But we have something in store for them GSU and them - all of them - they can take this right now because we don't respect anything."

Voice of: Resident of the area
"Miss I live on the canal side and about 2:50am the red truck stop and 5 men in black jumped out but I didn't know that it was murder they were going to commit. Miss I see too much things from the canal side but if it was my son a officer in uniform `carrying a badge would die because I would die with my child today."

Vallen Perez, Mother of Anthony Perez
"He was a person who use to always get ignorant with himself but few seconds after he would come back and please again and do whatever he got to do."

Monica Bodden
"Mrs. Perez, I understand that you were waiting for his this morning."

Vallen Perez, Mother of Anthony Perez
"I was waiting for him to come in but I thought that he was sleeping late and I just started to do what I had to do."

Monica Bodden
"He normally comes out and helps you at 3am?"

Vallen Perez, Mother of Anthony Perez
"Yes he would come and knock on my window and come inside but this morning he never did it."

Reporter
"For a person life to be taken so brutally - his body I believe was seen by your mother at the front door."

Vallen Perez, Mother of Anthony Perez
"Yes my mother went to see him; I never wanted to see like that. For me I just want to remember him just like how he was. It's so sad to know that a person you know is not doing those kinds of things to die along with the people who died, it's so sad. I believe that the GSU did it, yesterday morning they harass them - they knock down their door they harass them at all hours, so I believe its them."

Voice of: Resident of the area
"There is no way, no gang on the face of Belize will come through the "Gaza" George Street and murder 4 men like that - it's the police!"