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PUP Leader Francis Fonseca Remembers Cousin David
posted (May 4, 2015)
Why did former Belize City Mayor David Fonseca kill himself? And why did he do it on the day before his 61st birthday? That's the question that dominated conversations over the long weekend - where no one could figure out what could have propelled the always agreeable Fonseca to take his own life. He did it on Thursday afternoon around 2:00 in the bathroom of his mother's home. Police found him with a gunshot to the head, and a nine millimeter pistol in his hand. Today his cousin and Leader of the Opposition Francis Fonseca said that when he spoke to David Fonseca most recently, the former mayor was looking forward to his birthday:...

Hon. Francis Fonseca, Leader of the Opposition
"It's obviously a very deep personal loss. He was not only my cousin, but a friend and someone I had a great liking for and a great regard for. A quite man, a good decent man - so it's a deep personal loss and these things can never be properly explained or understood. When things like this happens, you simply have to place your faith in God's hands and that is what we are doing as a family and as a party. It is not for us to understand or to question or to judge. It is for us to accept and to carry on and that is what we are doing."

Reporter
"I know a lot of people out in the public have a lot of questions, specifically those who knew him and say well, they wouldn't think that he would have done such a thing. Was there any indication at all that he was in a depression or any such thing?"

Hon. Francis Fonseca, Leader of the Opposition
"Not to my knowledge. I have to confess this, it's not somebody that I deal with on a weekly basis or anything of that nature. Dave is my cousin, my friend, but I see him occasionally and I certainly never had any indication that he was depressed. The last time I saw him he was talking about the big Mayweather/Pacquiao fight and about watching that fight Saturday night and about celebrating his birthday. His birthday was May1st, the day after he took his own life. So, as I said it's always difficult to understand and to explain these things and the truth is you can't. You can't understand, you can't explained and you can't judge. All you have to do as I said earlier, placed ourselves in God's hands and seek comfort from other people."

Funeral arrangements are tentatively scheduled for Wednesday. Fonseca's daughter and sister were expected to arrive in the country today.

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