It was a bloody weekend in the Belize and Cayo Districts. There were 4 murders: 1 in Belize City, 1 in Ladyville, and 2 in the Cayo district. We start first with the murder of 57 year-old Walter Dawson, whose body was discovered yesterday morning.
Residents of Marage Road area found him on the side of the road with a savage chop wound to the life side of the head, and another wound to the neck which almost severed his head.
It's a particularly gruesome murder, with very little answers, and the police are begging for help to solve it. Today, we spoke with the Police Press Officer about it, as well as a family member who asked to speak off camera. Here's what they told us:
Insp. Fitzory Yearwood - Police Press Officer
"Police responded to a scene sometime around 7:40 am, where they saw the lifeless body of Walter Dawson, 57 yrs. old, somewhere like a hundred yards from the shrimp farm on Marage Road. Initial investigations revealed that some neighbors heard their dogs barking unusually sometime between 3:30 and 4 am but when they looked out they didn't see anything. Sometime after 7, a Good Samaritan (so to speak) was walking to work when he found a person lying face down on the edge of the road, called for police, police responded, he received severe head injuries and a cut wound to the neck almost decapitating him. He had other stab wounds and injuries to the back. At this time we don't know what the motive is, we are asking the assistance of the public to help us to try solve this one."
Voice of: Sara Dawson - Family Member
"We got a phone call stating that they found his body somewhere down in Japan and that he had a chop wound to his neck. We were shock and surprise for the call, we didn't expected it and we didn't know. His death came so suddenly to us. So we are really shocked by everything that happened. Walter is a great guy, he socialize with everyone, he will surely be missed; the laugh, the talks, we had a lot of fun times together hanging out; he really helps a lot around here, anyone needs something they would tell him, "Walter can you please come and do this, he is going to come." We are all just shocked by the news, we are sadden by it because he has been living around here for the past 2 years. His family is mostly in the United States. He will be greatly missed around here at Dawson's residence."
As you heard from Sara Dawson, most of his family are living in the US. We are told that he has one daughter, and he moved to his mile 11 apartment about 2 years ago.
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