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Cayo Deceased is Belize City Man
posted (February 21, 2017)
The identity of the second victim in the Cayo double murder has been confirmed. He is 22 year old Chester Theus. He is originally from the Long Barracks on Caesar Ridge Road in Belize City. Now as we told you, the report is that Theus was allegedly hired to kill Aldana on Sunday night. And then about 7 hours later, Theus himself was shot to the head. Theus's body was found on 1st Street in san Ignacio Town yesterday morning around 6:00. Today the family who took care of Theus and raised him as their own told us more about his life, but they couldn't say much about his execution in Cayo.

Shemalone Middleton, Sister
"One of my mother's friends asked me if she wanted a baby, because his mother wants somebody to give him too and my mother took him and raised him up until my mother my mom got sick, after my mom got sick he used to be around me a bit and then he went around his mom and from there he went to jail I don't know."

Courtney Weatherburne
"So you all raised him?"

Shemalone Middleton, Sister
"Yes."

Courtney Weatherburne
"So just tell us what you understand happened yesterday, he lived here in Belize City with you all but how did he end up in Cayo? What do you understand happened?"

Shemalone Middleton, Sister
"I live in Mahogany Heights, he comes to visit me in Heights but he told me he was in Roaring Creek I don't know when he went to Cayo or what but I know but I heard it was Cayo he lived."

Courtney Weatherburne
"You didn't know of any trouble he was in or why anyone would want to kill him like this?"

Shemalone Middleton, Sister
"No."

Courtney Weatherburne
"The police is saying that it might be the case that Chester might have allegedly killed this other guy Aldana and then Chester himself was killed yesterday morning , what do you think about that?"

Shemalone Middleton, Sister
"I don't know what to say about that, I don't know Chester as any killer so I don't know, I can't say, I wasn't there, I haven't seen Chester from last year so I don't know."

Police still haven't formed a clear connection between both murders but what these men do have in common is that they both have had run-ins with the law. According to sources, Aldana is known to police and has been arrested for robberies before, while Theus is believed to have been associated with a Belize City gang. Police are still looking for a man in connection with Theus's murder.

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