Since March, we've been reporting on a spike in violent crime on San Pedro – which has resulted in three murders, and multiple shootings and stabbings. The third murder since March happened on Saturday morning in the troubled San Juan area of San Pedro Town when 49 year old Corozaleno Alfred "Cat" Kelvin was killed. His death comes as a shock to his family who did not even know he was in the country! Daniel Ortiz found out more today:..
Supt. Luis Castellanos – OC, San Pedro Police
"On Saturday the 31st of May at 2:05 in the morning we received information of a shooting in the San Juan area. As a result of the information received police visited Sea Weed Street situated in San Juan area where they saw the lifeless body of a individual we know as Alfred Kelvin, 49 years old Belizean unemployed of the San Juan area. He was seen suffering from one single gunshot wound to the right eye which exited on the right side of his head. He was apparently dead on the spot."
Daniel Ortiz reporting
That after police saw him less than 10 minutes before the gunman ended his life. He was standing here, in front of Ritchie's Supermarket, when an officer told him to leave because he was loitering. They had no idea that death was waiting around the corner.
Supt. Luis Castellanos
"The policeman have seen him approximately 5 - 8 minutes prior to his shooting and they spoke to him and he was advised to leave the area because he was seen at the corner of Pescador and San Piper Streets where he was standing up and the police advised to leave the area since he was loitering. He left and shortly after he was then shot. Initial investigation reveal that he was walking in Sea Weed Street when apparently somebody fired one single shot at him hence the injuries he received."
At this time, police don't know why the still unidentified assailant killed him so callously, but they do know that he was a known drug user, and he had previous possession charges. Investigators are looking into that to see if it is connected to his death.
Supt. Luis Castellanos
"We know him as a drug user and also we know that he was charged for harm on the 16th April against a female that made a complaint against him and like I said we know him in that capacity."
On the flipside, as far as his parents knew, he was still in the US, where he had migrated. They had no idea that he was back home. They are from the Corozal District, and they were in London until 3 months ago.
Sydney Kelvin Sr – Father of Deceased
"To be truthful its about 5,6,7 years since we saw him."
Thelma Kelvin – Step-Mother of Deceased
"That he went to visit us in Corozal because after that he went to the United States and then after that he came back and when he came back his nephew called me and ask if I knew that Alfred came from the States and I tell him no and he says yes, he went to San Pedro he told me. From then we never saw him, until now that we got the news that they killed him in San Pedro."
Sydney Kelvin Sr – Father of Deceased
"For the longest I haven't seen him. And now that I see him he is dead. That hurts me very much. I really want the police or anybody to find out why and how he died like that."
A month ago, Dennis "Chingy" Palacio was murdered a few yards away from where Kelvin was gunned down. 2 days before Palacio was killed, 6 gunmen wearing bandanas, fired indiscriminately at a group of people for no apparent reason and escaped before they could be caught. 6 weeks before that, 22 year-old Darrington Lauriano Jr. was walking to his home in the area when gunman shot him in the back.
Superintendent Castellanos tells us that San Juan area is the location that his officers has focused quite a lot of patrols to try to curb the rising crime in that neighbourhood. He told us that it's also a location where drug peddlers operate, which they are monitoring closely.
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