Unitedville Landscaper Fatally Shot and Left in Graveyard

Residents of Unitedville were left stunned on Wednesday afternoon after a heartbreaking discovery near the village cemetery. Around four p.m., a young boy on his way to a football game noticed a strong, unpleasant smell. When he looked closer, he saw something no child should ever have to witness, the lifeless body of a man lying among the graves. Police and concerned villagers quickly arrived at the scene, but the man’s identity was initially unknown. It wasn’t until a photo of the body began circulating that family members came forward and identified him as forty-seven-year-old Paul Serano, a landscaper who lived between Unitedville and Belmopan. Authorities reported that Serano’s body was already in an advanced state of decomposition. He had suffered three gunshot wounds, one to the neck, one to the shoulder, and another to the abdomen. The news has devastated Serano’s family and the communities he was part of. A relative shared that the discovery came as a complete shock, they hadn’t even realized he was missing. Police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding Serano’s death.

 

Voice of: Relative of Deceased

“He was staying with her, with my cousin in Belmopan. And that’s why she knew that it was her dad, because when he left from Belmopaan, he went to United Village. The same Saturday he left, he went there with our next cousin that he was staying with, She noticed that he haven’t returned home Sunday, Sunday night. But that was the same time that people in the village were saying that they heard gunshot within that same period of time in the village, but it was nothing strange due to the fact that they always have a set of boys. Who always shooting for no reason. So people paid no attention. But when they found the body, they thought he went back to his daughter in Belmopan for those days that he didn’t return to my other cousin in Unitedville. They thought he went back to Belmopan. Meanwhile, my cousin in Belmopan was thinking that he was still in Unitedville. So it was a miss crossing, thinking between the family. So we wasn’t even sure if he was, because he’s not a problem person. He’s not a drunken type, and he’s not a violent person to say when he goes, we don’t know where he at. Whenever he goes, we know where exactly he is because he’s a family-oriented person. He is a jovial person. He is this type of person who is very well known in Unitedville. He has no issue with no one. He has no problem with no one. He is someone that you could lift him in your yard to do work, which is, that is what he mostly do. He usually do landscape for people in their property in Unitedville. So it is something that is very shocking because he is a loving, respectable person. He, if he have something that he know you want, he would rather give it to you before any trouble. He would rather avoid problem if you come wrong and problems that he’s that type that will walk away.”