As we told you at the top of the newscast, 31 year old Mark Medina was killed in a sensational Sunday Slaying on Iguana Street. Medina has a long rap sheet, and appears in our archives from as early as 2002, then just a teenager, the target of gunshots fired in his neighborhood. In 2005 police shot him when he was being pursued as a suspect for murder. In 2007 he was charged for the murder of a Chinese grocer, and in 2010 he was sentenced to four years for firearm possession. And these are just some of the offences he was charged with. We give this background to show the enduring bad blood police have towards him. And that ha prompted at least one police officer to jump on facebook and broadcast his frank feelings about Mark Medina's death, basically to say he had it coming. That has outraged his family. Monica Bodden spoke to his cousin a short while ago:..
Voice of: Cousin of Mark Medina
"I got up this morning and I have his program that needed to get done. So I said 'well I have to cut and paste, download from the internet'. So I said to myself 'let me go on Facebook', and when I went on, the first thing that popped up on my page was a comment from a police man who got transferred to Punta Gorda. I think, as a police officer, nothing like that was supposed to be posted on Facebook about Mark Medina Junior. Because I just want him, (the officer) to know that Marky is a smart, educated, 4th form graduate, handsome and that he could get the most women which he (the officer) cannot get. You tell him that for me."
Monica Bodden
"What was the comment?"
Voice of: Cousin of Mark Medina
"The comment was that Marky is an @#*&^ and he feels much better that Marky is gone now. To tell you the truth I'm lost with words for my aunt, because I know her pain. We've been there before, we have it again, but I can say to my aunt that I wish that God gives her the strength to move on after we bury Marky. Mark Medina Junior, he was a great and loving cousin to me and to the rest of the family. My aunt loved him dearly and Mark Medina Sr."
Best information suggests that Medina was lured to his death possibly by persons within his own George Street circle - who owed him money.
And in the wake of his death - violence in the city continues. Just a few minutes we learned of a shooting on Reggae Street in Belize City - and it is reportedly fatal.
More on that tomorrow.
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