Man Charged with Mark Waight’s Murder in Belize City

Regarding the murder of 24-year-old Mark Waight, which occurred on Saturday, January 25, police on Monday, January 27, formally arrested and charged 22-year-old Peter Amado Lara, a Belizean construction worker from Belize City, with the crime of murder.

Waight was gunned down on Central American Boulevard, between Faber’s Road and Trinity Street, in front of his girlfriend’s home. During the incident, 33-year-old Francine Herbert was critically injured. The violence reportedly began when Waight got into a dispute with another man, who then pulled out a gun and shot him multiple times. Waight collapsed into a nearby drain and was pronounced dead before reaching the K.H.M.H.