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Alleged Killers Sent Back To Jail After 100 Hours of Freedom
posted (May 17, 2016)
Accused murderers Tarique Gillett and Lyson James Cacho are back behind bars tonight after being re-arrested for a 2015 murder. They had just been released last week Friday because the prosecutor did not provide them with disclosure of evidence, and tonight, after 100 horus of freedom, they were picked up and re-arrested for the very same shooting. This time, the prosecution wants to submit fingerprint evidence against both.

They are charged for a fatal shooting which happened on March 1, 2015 on Periwinkle Street in Belize City. That's when cousins Michael Welch and Kingsley Morrison, were hanging out at a house and 2 gunmen rode up on bicycles and opened fire on them.

Welch was injured multiple times, and he died within minutes. Morrison was shot once to the upper shoulder, and survived.

Tarique Gillett and Lyson Cacho were arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, dangerous harm, and use of deadly means of harm. But, after waiting over a year on remand, they were allowed to go home because the prosecutor did not provide them with the disclosure, which was ordered by the court.

But, their freedom was short lived and today, they were brought back before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza except this time the prosecution asked to submit fingerprint evidence against tem. The prosecutor told the court that the investigators managed to lift a fingerprint off a van connected to the shooting. At today's arraignment, the Magistrate himself witnessed the fingerprint analysis from both men which was done in open court for the Magistrate's benefit.

After that procedure was completed, the Magistrate then remanded both men to prison until their next adjournment, scheduled for May 31, 2016.

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