Police Say Deceased Alwyn Arnold was the Aggressor in O.W. Brawl

Twenty-three-year-old Alwyn Arnold was stabbed to death on Saturday night after attending the annual Carnival Road March in Orange Walk Town. The Belize City resident got into an altercation with another individual during which he was fatally injured.  But was the individual with whom he was fighting simply defending himself from the vicious attack set off by Arnold?  This morning, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told News Five that after reviewing surveillance footage that captured the incident, it was apparent that Arnold was in the wrong for lunging after the individual who ultimately stabbed him.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“We had received a video footage of that incident and it was a fight.  The deceased was the aggressor, I must say, and the person who did the stabbing has not come forward.  I guess he is in fear, but I don’t see him being charged for murder.  Having viewed the video footage, he was defending himself. So if he were to come in and he were to give his statement as to what happened, that would go to the D.P.P. rep in Orange Walk for their advice and I don’t see a murder charge coming out of it because the deceased actually ran after him, aggressing him and it was during that process, the fight, that the deceased was stabbed.  So, for me it was more an act of self-defense but we’re going to see when that time comes.  But like I said, it is difficult because these liquor establishments, many of them do not get police to work for them and with the huge amount of people that go to these establishments, it poses a great security threat.  We had to close down two of the nightclubs because when we went there the crowd was swelling and they had no police.  How could you?  We can’t take things for granted.  While we get liquor license to operate, their must be security measures in place to secure the safety of the people who come to your place.  So the Orange Walk Carnival is very, very challenging but we do our best to ensure that we police the best that we can.”