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An American man was found dead in his room at the Cloisters Condominium on San Pedro. Reports from Islanders are that 50 year old deep water diver Delbert Fenn died sometime on Friday and his body was found until yesterday morning around 10:30. Now this case is a little peculiar because police are treating this case as a sudden death. While they are not ruling out murder – police say there are several complicated factors that need to be considered. We travelled to San Pedro this morning to find out more.

Room 102: it was just another fancy apartment among the others at the Cloisters Condominium on San Pedro. But yesterday it turned into a crime scene when 50 year old Delbert Fenn was found dead in this room.

Today Police and Scenes of Crime personnel were at the room still ferreting for clues and evidence that would provide more insight into Fenn's death.

His friends and neighbours say that they last saw him on Friday when he had gotten into a fight and was taken to the police station. But when they didn't see Fenn around for the entire weekend, they reported it to the manager. The manager's husband and a caretaker went to check on him yesterday morning and that's when they found his decomposed body on the floor.

Sgt. Lenancio Bol - Station Sergeant, San Pedro

"Sometime about 10:30 AM on yesterday's date; which would be Tuesday the 27th of October 2015. After receiving information police visited Cloisters apartment located north of San Pedro Town where they entered apartment number 102. And upon making checks they found inside the lifeless body of a caucasian male person seen lying on the floor face upon a pool of red substance suspected to be blood."

Fenn had 2 stab wounds – one to the shoulder and forearm. At this point there is very little that the police can disclose about this case.

Sgt. Lenancio Bol - Station Sergeant, San Pedro

"Due to the investigation, the investigating officer has some people he needs to question in regards to and due to the nature we don't want to make any speculation. Nevertheless, we cannot rule the death as murder, so that's the reason why we try to treat it as a sudden death until his investigation is completed."

So was Delbert Fenn murdered? If so, who did it? There are many questions and speculation circulating the island but no definitive answers. What is certain is that Fenn's family and friends both on the island and in the US are left to mourn his death and the islanders are again faced with the spectre of violence hanging over San Pedro.

Police say they are seeking 2 people for questioning. Fenn was living alone at Cloisters - all his family lives in the US. He only had a Belizean girlfriend. We will keep following the case.