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Deceased Constable Hall Had It Hard At The End
posted (September 23, 2016)
Last night we told you about Police Constable Jason Hall, who passed away Tuesday. He's the officer from Precinct 3 in Belize City who made the news in July 2015 after he was viciously beaten by a man who pretended to be a good Samaritan. That man offered to help him fix a blowout, but instead, he attacked Hall, stole his car, and left him unconscious on the side of the road.

Hall was left in a coma due to head injuries, and a few months later, almost as though, he couldn't catch a break, he was diagnosed with cancer. We got a chance to speak to his close friend and colleague, Fitzroy Yearwood, who told us how they got devastating news of his passing on the eve of Independence Day:

Insp. Fitzroy Yearwood, Fellow Officer/Superior
"PC Hall, after recovering from that unfortunate incident that you guys helped me with that fundraising for, he began complaining about pain to the back. I worked with him from his day of recovery which was the 1st of October 2015 until I was transferred the end of January 2016. I remained as his supervisor and he explained to me that he had severe back pain. I kept advising him to go and see the doctor to get himself checked up and find out what's wrong, maybe its injury related or maybe not. He finally contacted me sometime in May and told me that he was diagnosed with kidney stones. I told him 'boy that serious, you need to get that checked out'. He said that the doctor recommended a surgery so all in all, he was down for his surgery, made several attempts and finally sometime in July he was to have this surgery. I then heard from his common law, when she contacted me and told me, that he had been diagnosed with cancer. At first he didn't accept it as no one would accept the news that you have cancer. I could remember when I was diagnosed with diabetes, it was a hard pill to swallow, and I was in denial. Likewise, Hall was in denial, but because we are close outside of the job and in the job, I spoke to him and finally he began seeking the necessary treatment. Unfortunately on the 20th of September I was contacted by my colleague, Superintendent Suzeth Anderson, where she told me that he took a turn for the worst that was early in the morning. By 7 o'clock that evening, we were all grieving. He was very ambitious and he used to always sit in this very chair when I would be standing over there and on my breaks. He would say 'boss when you're not here I'm the boss, so I want to feel how it feels to be the boss'. He always aspired to be his best, whenever you give him a task there was no task too large for him."

Hall is from Corozal, and he leaves behind a common-law wife and 6 children.

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