A Mennonite Farmer is Arrested for Murder in Corozalito

A Mennonite farmer was arraigned on a single charge of murder when he appeared in the lower court in Belize City this morning.  The victim, thirty-three-year-old Alexander Viamill, was reportedly engaged in a physical altercation with David Friesen when he was apparently strangled to death with a charging cable. The arrest of twenty-eight-year-old Friesen follows the discovery of Viamill’s body near a bus shed in Corozalito Village last Wednesday.  Ladyville police were responding to a missing person’s report for Viamill and, while searching for him, happened upon his body a short distance from the roadside.  An investigation revealed that on February seventeenth, Viamill attended a dance in Maskall Village and, upon leaving the event, was said to be heavily intoxicated.  He was reportedly in Friesen’s company.  Earlier today, Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero provided a few additional details on the incident.

 

Hilberto Romero, Regional Commander, Eastern Division

“On Wednesday, February twenty-first, police responded to a report at Corozalito Village in the Belize District, that the body of a male person had been found.  Police visited the area where they found the lifeless body of Alexander Viamil with injuries to the neck and face.  He was taken to the KHMH where he was pronounced dead on arrival.  Investigation revealed that Alexander Viamil was last seen a couple days before Wednesday and was reported missing the day before.  Police conducted an investigation and a post mortem examination was conducted on him and the results were handed to the investigator.  As a result, David Friesen, twenty-eight-years old Belizean farmer of Corozalito has been arrested and charged for the crime of murder.”

 

Reporter

“Has Friesen related to the police why?”

 

Hilberto Romero

“The investigation revealed that they were involved in a fight, at which point Viamil received injuries which caused his death.”