Man Dies After Being Stung by Killer Bees  

Tonight, a family in Toledo is heartbroken after Jafy Perez, a father of three, was tragically killed by a swarm of bees on Monday. Perez, originally from San Pedro, Colombia, lived and worked in Caye Caulker but had returned to Toledo to spend Easter with his family. While helping out with a cleaning job on a farm, he stumbled upon a bees’ nest. Perez tried to escape but fell and was fatally stung. We spoke with his mother-in-law, Theodora Perez, for more details.

 

On the Phone: Theodora Coc, Mother-in-law of Deceased

“ He was working in Caye Caulker as a mechanic, but  he come because Eastern now also he come with the family here with us. He was just staying with us and them everything was okay, but due to one of her sister need help, so he said, I heard this woman have jobs, so better. I go try and do a day work for myself once my sister need help. I wouldn’t do that, but, she is always disturbing with me and me for some money. So better I get a day job. That’s something for me. And if it do interesting, then I can stay here and work with those people and I stop go to that side because they said I have it good because I don’t have to pay rent and I will be with my family. That’s what he said. The African bees have attacked them on the way I think, where they’re working. Not too hard, but maybe by mistake they get that. And that’s when we hear that he did.”

 

Britney Gordon

“Was this Monday afternoon or Monday evening?”

 

Theodora Coc

“Monday afternoon, I think about three o’clock. There’s nothing that I can say about him. Because there’s no one with us. He’s the only man come with us because we are there by ourself. I am a single mother too. So she is here with my daughter and her with his three kids.”

 

Britney Gordon

“Okay. Are you guys asking for any sort of assistance with his funeral or stuff like that?”

 

Theodora Coc

“Yes. Yes, because right now he doesn’t have anything. And with the three kids, one is six, the other one is three, and the smallest one is one.”

 

Perez’s family can be contacted on the number six-seven-two-seven -nine-eight-two.