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Man Killed in Bladden Village Beat down
posted (December 17, 2018)
Tonight there are 2 murders from Southern Belize to report. We start first with the chopping murder of Marcos Chen, a 41 year-old Guatemalan Farmer from Bladden Village in the Toledo District.

It happened sometime after 4 p.m. on last Friday evening. Chen was on his way to a fishing trip, and he passed by the home of a man who has been identified to police as Dario Sho. Police say that Chen was passing by Sho's house, when Sho began throwing rocks at him. Chen was injured in the head by one of those rocks, and the violent confrontation escalated to a machete fight, in which a group of young men, identified as relatives of Sho, jumped in, and they all put a beatdown on Sho. When the police arrived, they found the victim suffering from multiple chop wounds to the head, arms and the feet.

The head of National Criminal Investigations Branch shared more details with the media today at a press conference:

ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch
"On Friday last, sometime around 4:30 p.m., Independence police were called to Bladen Village which is located between miles fifty-two and fifty-three on the Southern Highway where upon arrival they observed the apparent lifeless body of a Hispanic male, later identified as Marcus Chen, forty-one-year-old Guatemalan laborer of the said village with multiple chop wounds to the head and body. What the police know so far is the deceased, along with three other persons, was in the village walking towards the Bladen River en route to go fishing when upon reaching near Dario Sho's residence, Sho began stoning. One of the stones caught the deceased Marcus Chen in his head which caused him to fall and as a result, he was then attacked by Dario Sho and in the process he inflicted a chop wound to the left arm of Dario Sho. In the process, four of his other brothers came out of the yard and inflicted the aforementioned injuries to the deceased. So far, Dario Sho is in the Southern Regional Hospital under police guard while his other brothers remain at large and the police are seeking them in relation to this investigation."

Police say that these other relatives of Sho are being sought as suspects in this case as well.

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