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Man Killed On Way To Work In Mahogany Heights
posted (April 27, 2015)
Medina's was Sunday's first murder - and within 20 hours two more in the Belize District would be dead. The last was Kevin Jones Flowers who was killed in Mahogany Heights this morning. The 40 year old was gunned down as he was walking to work across the road at the shrimp farm in La Democracia. A gunman or gunmen waylaid him on the shortcut he takes every morning and hunted him down. Courtney Weatherburne was at the scene:...

Courtney Weatherburne reporting
40 year old Kevin Flowers's body was found here on this picado between Mahogany Heights and the George Price Highway.

He was found huddled on his knees. According to his family, he was on his way to work at the Shrimp Farm this morning when he was killed.

He was riding on this bike but had to abandon it to try and run from his shooter.

But he could escape, and was shot and killed. To his friends and family, this is not a gang related incident.

Voice of: Wife of Deceased
"My husband works at the Tilapia farm. He doesn't trouble anyone up here. The police hear gunshot over and over up here. They are not doing their job. All they are doing is interfere in people's lives up here, instead of doing their job. I would really want they do something about this or change the policeman. I was at work and my cousin call me and told me that something has happened at home. When I call my sister, they already knew, but they didn't want to tell me anything and so they brought me up here and I saw my husband down there. They didn't allow me to see him because they said that the Scenes of Crime unit has to come. He got shot since 7am this morning and the Scenes of Crime unit hasn't arrived as yet."

Voice of Friend
"I don't know if it's an issue about base, but I know that the man had just move back down here about a couple of months ago. He is not someone who mingle with much people. He is a person who keeps to himself. We know he is from through "ghost town." But most people would want to link it and say it's a gang thing. He doesn't really push those gang things anymore."

And the villagers say they want 'no more' violence in this small community.

Voice of Friend
"We need something to get done. I think if they can't do it, then it's us the people in the community who has to do it by ourselves."

Our reports show that in 2013, he was charged for a 9 millimetre pistol with 12 rounds of ammunition.

There was a murder on that same picado road 3 years ago in March of 2012. 23 year old Herman Garbutt was killed at around 6:00 in the morning.

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