Man Walks from Murder Charge

Twenty-one-year-old Jahstar Wassani Gonguez is free of the November first, 2021, murder of Shawn Robert Palacio, also known as “Ras Shawn “. The case ended in a nolle prosequi when the main witness was too afraid and asked if the state can protect her. But when she was informed that there is no witness protection system in Belize, she chose not to testify in the matter. Gonguez spent two years, six months on remand. He was arrested and charged with Palacio ‘s murder on November eighteenth, 2021, seventeen days after the fatal shooting. On November first, 2021, forty-year-old Shawn Robert Palacio was gunned down while walking on Mudd Street on the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. In 2021, Palacio ‘s murder came as a shock to his community as he was not known to be involved in any violent activities.