Suspect in B.D.F. Shooting Refuses to Provide Blood Sample

The motive behind the fatal shooting of Belize Defence Force soldier Private Clive Baizar remains unclear. Reports indicate that Baizar and his colleague, Lance Corporal Alfred Robinson, were on duty at the Conservation Post in Crique Sarco when a disagreement between the two escalated into violence. While it is uncertain whether alcohol played a role in the incident, Brigadier General Azariel Loria stated that it cannot yet be ruled out.

 

Brigadier General Azariel Loria, B.D.F.

“At this point in time, we do not rule out alcohol. The investigators, we passed the, the situation, the whole incident to the police department to investigate it.  But we too, we have, we are investigating it parallel to the police department  and  we are not ruling it out. We were requested, as part of the regulations that they provide blood specimens, blood samples to which all but one complied.  So, if the only person that did not comply is the prime suspect of the  fatality. But all have been tested, their blood was taken or withdrawn by a qualified doctor in Punta Gorda and the samples were brought to Belize City for tests. So it’s thirteen  of them and one refused. He even signed on the paper that he is foregoing that. From what we have been updated so far is that yesterday, Private Baizar and  Lance Corporal Robinson were bantering,  essentially, outside on the veranda of the building, where they are occupying it and  it is when the Lance Corporal decided to go inside of the building,  he got a smack, a big smack from Private Beiser, with allegedly using some words “Bwai go inside and leave me alone” because of the bantering. I think that the bantering was getting heavier. But the smack, some could classify it as a punch. It was too hard  Probably that is what got to the Lance Corporal  and he went inside the building  Cranked his weapon or cocked his weapon in the military term for it  and came in back outside  and pull the trigger.”