And there was another murder in the city - the fourth in eight days. This spike in killing comes after a November and December which saw only two homicides in the city. But something changed since the new year started - and there's been a rash of especially violent murders. That's what the city witnessed again last night - when a man who's no stranger to police was shot up on Banak Street in the City's southside. He died on a dark street with no one around. Monica Bodden tried to find out what happened to Eaton Carr.
Denmark Carr - Brother of Deceased
"I was sleeping last night and around 12:30 - 1:00 I received a call for me to come because they found a body at the morgue. When I reached at the morgue it was my brother."
Monica Bodden reporting
Just after 11 last night, Denmark Carr was awakened by a call from police requesting his presence at the morgue to identify the body of his younger brother - 37 year old Eaton Carr.
Just minutes before, at 10:19, Eaton Carr had been gunned down in a drain on Banak Street between Lakeview and Cedar Street. He received gunshot wounds to the neck, upper chest, right arm and to the back - a total of 7 shots.
His brother believed he was running from his gunman at the time he was executed.
Denmark Carr - Brother of Deceased
"I saw at least 5-6 holes. I thought it was stab wounds but when I ask the doctor he told me that it was bullet holes. The man was torn up in his chest."
Monica Bodden
"You know what happened last night?"
Denmark Carr - Brother of Deceased
"I don't have any idea ma'am. All I heard that he was Banak Street straying and gunmen pulled up on his and shoot him. Right exactly behind Brothers Habet they found him in a drain last night according to the police officer. I feel like they were chasing and he drop and they shoot him up."
Carr is no stranger to the law. He made the news in 2004 when Belmopan and Dangriga police accused him and 4 others of plotting and executing six burglaries of prominent homes and businesses in the Belmopan area. But as his brother explained it, that was a thing of the past.
Denmark Carr - Brother of Deceased
"I feel like he was targeted because he was somebody that used to be in the streets long time ago. Things that you did before, people don't forget you. That is what happened there."
Monica Bodden
"He was changing his life?"
Denmark Carr - Brother of Deceased
"He was changing his life, but out here people doesn't forget what you do them. I just want the killer or whoever is responsible for this to know that we are not out for any revenge. We will leave everything in the hands of the father. The father will deal with these kinds of thing."
Carr was the father of one child that lives in his hometown of Dangriga.
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