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Belize City Man Very Cruelly Killed and Dumped
posted (August 1, 2019)
Tonight, we have a hideous and cruel murder to report in the Belize district.

34 Year old Darwin Rocke's decomposed body was found this morning at 8:30 near the Burrell Boom bridge.

His body was stuffed in a plastic bag and wrapped in a blue tarp. When police uncovered it - they found stab wounds to his chest, one of his hands cut off, and his head partially decapitated.

He met an especially cruel end - a torturous execution - and tonight his family is asking why.

We spoke to his mother an hour ago and she told us she last spoke to him on Monday evening. She says she has no answers as to why anyone would want to murder her son.

Myrna Ferguson, Mother
"I got the call from a police officer, because they found a body on the road at Boom Bridge about after 10am this morning. I saw the flash news that they found a body and instant I felt that was my son, because I didn't saw my son on Tuesday, Wednesday and today and everyone asking me for him and when the police call me and ask if I have a son missing, I said yes and he ask If I was willing to come and identify the body and I told him I cannot came to identify, but I will send somebody who can identify my son. He has a tattoo on his hand with my name on it and it was how we identified him. He was alrdeady decomposed. He had 3 stab in his chest and one of his hands was actually cutted off and a plastic bag over his face and his throat was slit. They slit his throat and left him there like a piece of garbage."

Reporter
"You said the last time you spoke with him was on Monday evening."

Myrna Ferguson, Mother
"Monday evening about 4:40pm when I saw the missed call on my phone, I called him back and asked him what's the matter and he ask me to please see if I can find a house for him, because a friend of his is looking for a house. So I said no problem, I will. The next day I call him and I didn't get any answer. From then up to this morning I still call him and no answer. It went straight to voice mail."

Reporter
"You have no idea who would do this to him?"

Myrna Ferguson, Mother
"You know how children are, they don't want to tell their mother anything because they don't want the mother to worry. But I could say this mother could swear for my children - none of my children never yet involved with any criminal things. My son was a loving, gorgeous young man. Who did this? I am asking them right in their face, they took away something deep down in my heart. I just buried my daughter 8 months ago. I didn't have the guts to get on TV and talk about it, but now I have to do it. Why did they take my son's life away from him? They didn't have to do this. We have to stop kill innocent people. They don't know what they are doing to this family. Darwin didn't have any kids, but he was loved by his nieces and his nephew. Darwin have 3 nieces and 1 nephew and every weekend Darwin would call them up and take them to the pool. Anything he would do for them and anything he would do for me, because he knows I am his right hand."

Reporter
"Certainly it's a shock for you guys. It brutal to kill someone in this manner. It's a targeted execution."

Myrna Ferguson, Mother
"What did Darwin did to them for them for him to deserve something like this? It didn't have to go this way. If Darwin had owed them money, they could have talk to him easily, but they didn't had to do what they did to him, but God knows everything. I don't want any revenge for my son. The only revenge I want for my son is God."

Rocke did not have any kids. The grief is amplified for this family because his sister, Stella Maris teacher Ruth Ferguson died in November 2018. Viewers will remember that Ferguson died of a heart attack after police showed up at her workplace to collect a debt she owed. She had a severe anxiety attack and died about 5 hours after the encounter with police.

Now, back in August 2010, their Aloe Vera Street family home was targeted by a gunman. In that incident, the gunman pushed a sawed-off shotgun through the louvers and fired a shot. No one was injured in that incident.

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