Written on December 18, 2020 | Posted in Featured,Trials | Comments Off
There are new COVID-19 measures being implemented going into the Christmas holidays, including a nightly curfew that will keep most Belizeans inside their homes at eight o’clock. The announcement of [.]
Dec 18, 2020
Cassian Billary
Cassian Billary of Warrie Street in Belize City was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for the murder of nineteen-year-old Micah Baltazar. Billary couldn’t be offered bail and no plea was taken because the charge is an indictable offence to be tried only in the Supreme Court. He was remanded to prison today. On Monday night, Baltazar, a gas attendant, had just left a relative’s house on Kraal Road and he was walking on Neal’s Pen Road when he was gunned down. According to Head of Eastern Division’s Crimes Investigations Branch, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, Balthazar may have been killed because of the area that he frequents.
Micah Baltazar
Was 19-year-old Micah Baltazar lured to his death on Neal’s Pen Road on the night of Monday, December 14? That, among other questions, are what police are attempting to find answers to as they investigate this shooting murder. For now, the police are saying that this incident is gang-related and that he was in the wrong neighborhood but Baltazar’s mother, who has conceded that her son is no saint, says that her child was misunderstood. What is certain, however, is that Baltazar had just left his cousin’s house located on Rivero Street when someone told him that a girl was looking for him. As such, he headed onto Neal’s Pen Road and it was at around 7:30 p.m. when he was ambushed. A lone gunman fired several shots in his direction and he was left to bleed out on the sidewalk.
Dec 15, 2020
Micah Baltazar
Another mother is grieving the loss of a teenage son to gun violence tonight. Florentina Baltazar’s son was gunned down on Neal’s Pen Road on Monday night, several minutes after leaving his cousin’s home. Admittedly, Micah Baltazar was no saint, but his mother says that he was simply misunderstood. Police, on the other hand, say that it is all gang-related and that Baltazar was in the wrong neighbourhood when he was preyed upon by his rivals. Here is Isani Cayetano with that story.
Isani Cayetano, Reporting
A nineteen-year-old Belize City resident is dead and his murder on Monday night is being investigated as a gang-related homicide. Micah Baltazar had just left his cousin’s house on Rivero Street and was walking along Neal’s Pen Road around 7:30 p.m. when he was pounced upon with lethal precision. A gunman fired several shots in his direction, leaving him for dead on the sidewalk.