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Today, the Commander of the Punta Gorda Police Station told us via telephone that the investigators suspect that he was murdered over a land dispute in San Pedro Colombia. Here's what he told us:

Supt. Simeon Alvarez, OC - Punta Gorda Police
"Some time around 9:21pm on the 26th December 2015, Punta Gorda police received information of a dead body situated in the Colombia/San Miguel Road. As a result of that the police visited the area and upon arrival there, they saw the lifeless body of a Maya decent person who was later identified to be one Evaristo Bul, 55 years old of a Colombia Village address. Police investigation revealed that on that same particular day, the alcalde for the Colombia Village had a court hearing, because of a long dispute between the deceased and a family from the said village. And it was shortly after that this lifeless body of Evaristo Bul was found with multiple chop wounds to the head and neck and shoulder. Also observed was some bullet wound to the left side of the chest. At this time police have 4 persons in custody and I believe that within the next 48 hours, somebody will be arrested and charged for murder."

Daniel Ortiz
"Is it the thinking at this time that the gentleman was killed for this land that was in dispute over?"

Supt. Simeon Alvarez, OC - Punta Gorda Police
"Yes, because in an interview with the owner, the person that was using the land reported to me that the deceased was claiming a part of his land of which he had planted over 200 cacao plants and the deceased had destroyed them. So that matter was before the alcalde court in the village of Colombia."

According to police, the persons that they have detained are cooperating, and they expect to charge someone for Bul's murder shortly.