One of the busiest streets in down town Belize City - Orange Street, was blocked off after 2 this afternoon. Authorities locked down the area as CIB personnel processed what looked to be a crime scene. A 58 year old man had been found dead inside a white Toyota pickup truck in front of Old Navy Store near the junction with Euphrates Avenue.
Around 2:30 a thick crowd of onlookers had formed waiting to see who the victim was. Some minutes after 3 the body of a Hispanic man was carted out in a police mobile; and while the cause of death is something for the coroners to determine, close friends of the deceased believe he died in his sleep from excessive drinking.
Eric Pandy, Friend
"I told him Danny be careful. He drinks too much. He takes too much alcohol and I told him to please stop drinking too much. He said no."
Emanuel Pech
"Do you think that's what caused his death?"
Eric Pandy, Friend
"Well it could be, because lots of people die from drinking of alcohol."
Emanuel Pech
"How did he ended up in the car sir?"
Eric Pandy, Friend
"He would get in the car because he wants to sleep. 3-4 of us in the car and so I asked him if he wanted to sleep and he was high drinking. I told him to come in the car and sleep. This morning when I woke up, I told my friend over that side that my friend (Danny) died. I didn't know. I went to touch the glass of the vehicle 2 times. I told my friend that my good friend die. But he never believed that he died. It was when I went and opened the door and I touched him, I see him can't say anything. His heart was not pumping anything at all."
Police are yet to release his name but we understand that the deceased was named Danny, whom everyone knows as Trinni- short for Trinidad- his former home country. He had no family nor home in Belize and had been living on the streets for some time now.
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