Louis Matthews Charged with Kaylon David’s Murder

Less than a week after seventeen-year-old Kaylon Trevor David was gunned down on Iguana Street Extension, police have charged a twenty-one-year-old man with his murder.

Louis Matthews, a handyman from the same area, appeared unrepresented before a senior magistrate in Belize City this afternoon. Prosecutors allege that Matthews shot David several times as the teenager walked along Iguana Street Extension around six-thirty last Thursday evening. David was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he later died. Because murder is an indictable offence, the court did not take a plea and remanded Matthews to the Belize Central Prison. Before leaving the courtroom, Matthews asked for a summary of the allegations against him. Police believe the deadly shooting may have followed an ongoing rivalry involving threats between David and others in the neighborhood.

 

ACP Hilberto Romero, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch

“Reference the murder of Kaylon David that occurred in Belize City, we have since arrested and charged Louis Mathews, twenty-years of Belize City for the crime of murder. This is after an investigation was conducted and he was identified as the shooter.”

 

Reporter

“Have you been able to establish what was the issue between these two individuals?”

 

ACP Hilberto Romero

“Again, They have a rivalry in that area.”

 

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