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Closure For Family of Swallow Caye Five
posted (June 26, 2019)

And after that event at 4:00 - Commissioner Williams went to San Pedro for tonight's town meeting - which is underway right now.  Williams is the featured speaker at the San Pedro High School where he's trying to continue wary townspeople that Sunday's double murder was an outlier, and not indicative of a new pattern in criminal activity.

But while all the attention is focussed on San Pedro because of the international news coverage, we aren't taking our eyes off the Swallow Caye 5.  That's the five men who were found dead at sea, 23 year-old Travis Cooke, 49 year-old Ernest Willis, 40 year-old Winston Santos, 21 year-old Jemar Martinez, and 19 year-old Alysson Jones, were all discovered between Thursday night and Saturday afternoon. All 5 men were had been shot to the head. 

For their families who have lost so many - they told us on Sunday that they are at least grateful to have closure:

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