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“Pack Bread” Gunned Down In Griga
posted (July 2, 2018)
This morning, Dangriga Town woke up to news of an execution style murder which happened just after midnight.

50 year-old Melvin Locke, who townspeople fondly know as "Pack Bread", was socializing at his favorite hang out spot when a shooter came out of the darkness and gunned him down. There were a large group of witnesses, but that didn't stop the determined assailant who shot 4 times and ran away.

Today, our news team travelled to Griga looking for some answers, and Daniel Ortiz has that story:

Daniel Ortiz reporting
50 year-old Melvin Locke, a construction worker living in Dangriga Town, was shot and killed here in a part of the town everyone knows as the "Mangrove area".

This yard, which police say is owned by Rachel Longsworth, was his favorite spot. Unfortunately, it also became the place where he took his last breath.

His common-law wife says that she didn't approve of the amount of time he spent there.

Voice of: Carolyn Lopez - Common-Law of Deceased
"He frequented the Mangrove Area. He spent more time there than he spent here and it was something I had a problem with, because I foresaw this happening to him from there."

Police say that sometime after midnight he was playing dice with several men at that location when a gunman wearing camouflage, snuck into the yard and opened fire on him. He was injured to the head and chest, and he died right where he fell.

His common-law suspects that it maybe it was the regular gambling at the yard that led to his demise.

Reporter
"Did he have anybody who you thought would ever try to hurt him or is it simply because of that particular yard that you were worried?"

Voice of: Carolyn Lopez
"Nobody is particular, because he always complained about more than one person threatening him, because sometimes he would run the game and they would want to control him and he wouldn't let go himself to them and that brings up problem. They are cursing him and threatening him..."

Reporter
"Do you think that maybe something related to that gambling that happened there, that's what got him killed?"

Voice of: Carolyn Lopez
"I guess."

And just like that, her loved-one is no longer in her life.

Voice of: Carolyn Lopez
"Melvin was someone that wants everyone to love him and he tried and he gives you as much as he would want, but that doesn't ensure that he will get it back and that's what sometimes disappoints him with other people and then they have problems because if he treats you good and you treat him bad and then it doesn't work out with him then there is a confusion with him. But he is not a problematic person. He was just looking I guess for love with the wrong people."

Reporter
"What memories do you have of him that are vivid? Things that will always stay with you."

Voice of: Carolyn Lopez
"His hardheadedness."

Reporter
"Why his hardheadedness ma'am?"

Voice of: Carolyn Lopez
"Because he didn't listen. If he had listen to me maybe if it was his to have, maybe if death would have come his way, maybe it wound be on the ground in someone else's yard like a animal."

Locke's family says that he is the father of 4 children

The last murder in this town occurred 9 weeks ago, on April 27. That's when Gilbert Laurie was shot and killed inside his house in the Wagerale area. 3 days before Laurie's killing, Patrick Crossdale was ambushed and murdered near the Town's monument site.

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