And so how does the family of the deceased feel now that they have been charged? As you've been seeing in interviews with them - they are stricken by grief - and then on top of that - outraged by the unthinkable injustice of the fact that their loved one was killed by lawmen who had no business looking for a phone in their his home.
This evening, our colleagues from CTV3 News caught up with Ariel Salazar's sister, and she made it clear that she is not comforted by the quick arrests of these 8 lawmen until somebody is found guilty for her brother's death. She explained why:
Manuelita Salazar, Sister of Deceased
"Well when they get charged for real then I will feel better. Right now I can't say anything, because you could never tell what will happen. All I want is justice for my brother. Please, I want justice for what they did to my brother and I wish they would go to jail for life, because this is not fair. This is happening too much to a lot of kids and we don't try to stand up for my brother, nobody will stand up for him. All we want is justice and after that well we will see what we will do."
"We are trying to get a lawyer to fight the case, because if we depend on them, when you look nothing comes out of it. So we will get a lawyer so we can get our real justice from that, because the lawyer will see that he fight for us."
Reporter
"You mentioned that the family wasn't present at court this morning due to the funeral."
Manuelita Salazar, Sister of Deceased
"Due to the funeral we couldn't present because the funeral was 9AM we left from home and we reach at the church at 10AM. And from there the church finished at about 11:30 and we went to the burying ground. After that we came home and eat."
"We couldn't do anything because we couldn't left my brother here and go over there. SO we had to finish what we had to do and that's it. I thank a lot of people that helped us with the funeral and the wake and things."
As you heard, Ariel Salazar was laid to rest this morning. Court reports say that all 8 lawmen will be transferred from the Belize Central Prison back to the Magistrate's Court, for an adjournment of their case, which will take place on April 18.
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