2 weeks ago, 7News told you about how mentally unstable Big Falls resident Moses Williams lost his life in a violent encounter with police.
Williams is known to have mental problems, and on Monday February 17, he had already chopped a special constable, and to subdue him, a special constable shot him in the right leg. The bullet hit a major artery, and he died while receiving treatment.
Well, his family has been doing their own investigation, and they say that the police officer did not do his job properly. Moreover, they say that police officers were trying to get him kicked out of Big Falls:
Myrtle Williams, Mother of Moses Williams
"The young man that they killed in Big Falls Village last week Monday the 17th February: what happen was that from the beginning I thought something was fishy because I got to understand that he was killed by friend and other from Toledo but not the police. They had not called me and tell me anything. I had to go to Mr. Russell Brackett from Belmopan and ask then to call the superintendent in PG to get a confirmation that it was true that he has been shot and he is dead."
Daniel Ortiz
"Can you tell us about your son? What is the circumstance that you know of?"
Myrtle Williams, Mother of Moses Williams
"From what I got to understand is that; well he has a little mental problem, its off and on and because of that it seems that the villagers in Big Falls don't want him to walk the streets on Big Falls. He lives on private property not in the village but they still don't want him to be out in the village. If he goes out there, there is problem with the special constables, they don't want him on the street, the harass him, they rough him up, they threaten him. So he is always being threatened and things like that, but I never expected it to come to this."
"In December he went to me in Belmopan because I am in residing there right now and he lives on the farm and he told me he say 'mommy, can you buy me a gun' and I ask him why and he said because they want to kill me in Big Falls and I said no, I am not buying you any gun because I don't want you to get into trouble. So I ask him who, but he didn't answer."
The Mental Health Association has spoken out against the shooting incident, saying that if the situation was handled better, Williams did not have to die.
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