Jules Vasquez spoke to his family today:

This is the park that 43 year old Tyrell Requena was helping to build with his own hands so that one day his one year old son and other kids from his village would be able to enjoy it. But he'll never see the fruits of his labor because on Saturday, the licensed electrician - who'd been working at BATSUB for 25 years, was helping out his god-daughter in the Windmill area of Hattieville.

While he was on a ladder running cable for security cameras, 3 gunmen emerged from the bushes and opened fire. They hit Requena multiple times and injured his goddaughter Kiana Novelo who survived.

Today his slippers were left stuck in the mud along with tools waiting on the verandah - and the imprints of bullets impacts in the wall

Requena who was a licensed firearm owner, died on the spot. For his younger sister, she never could have expected this for her brother

Tyra Thomas, Sister of Deceased
"When we reach at the hospital, 5 minutes after my brother came out and I know what happened."

And in this case, police and the family are certain he was not the target. A male, known to visit the home, was.

Jules Vasquez
"By all accounts it's a case of mistaken identity?"

Tyra Thomas, Sister of Deceased
"Definitely. My brother, definitely 100 percent. I mean, I know we always hear on the news, me that, oh, my son is not this, oh my brother is not this, and never in my dream I could have imagined that my brother would have been a statistic. I could 100 percent say, I could 1,000 percent say it was a mistaken identity. My brother was not that."

Reporter
"Was he collateral damage in a gang war and was the target somebody else?"

ACP Hilberto Romero, OCED
"Yes, we have information that it was someone else. There were 3 persons there and 2 of them got shot."

Reporter
"Is it related to the same spike in gang criminal activity, the same groups?"

ACP Hilberto Romero, OCED
"Yes we have some information it is related to that, yes."

Reporter
"Do you know the motive for why they were after that other guy?"

ACP Hilberto Romero, OCED
"The same rivalry between the two groups in Belize City."

A working man, community leader and father of 6 - killed in a war he had no part in - he was just doing a job:

Tyra Thomas, Sister of Deceased
"Honestly, he is a community man, he is a community person, he is a legend gone. It is just unbelievable and to people these cowards, I mean we called these men bad men, but these are not bad men, because if you are bad man you will try at least look to see who you are shooting. Not just pulled a gun on somebody like that. My brother didn't deserve this."

And now this family has lost a light and the community, a leader:

Tyra Thomas, Sister of Deceased
"We live in Hattieville and everyone know Tyrell. He is an advocate. His latest thing is to put up a park by the community center. That was his project and he was proud of that. As a matter of fact just last week Sunday he went to plant some palm trees out there."

"You feel ager, you feel hurt, you feel devastated. I think the family is also is a state of denial not to gunshot. I could understand of my brother had lost his life to a car accident, fine, but not to gunshot."

Later this. Week, the family plans to have a vigil for Requena at the park he was building.