Murder Of Ras Bobo Weighs Heavily In Community

We also asked Police Commissioner Chester Williams for an update on last Friday’s murder of Elwin “Ras Bobo” Lewis. Lewis was shot dead while driving a motorcycle in front of Gwen Lizarraga High School in Belize City. His murder shocked and saddened community members, as he was often regarded as a success story as a reformed gang member. Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams said that his presence will be missed in the Leadership Intervention Unit.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“I have sat in many interventions with Bobo and he has always been one of the positive ones. I’m trying to see how best he can help to quell the issues in the George Street area. Certainly, yes, his presence working with the LIU is going to be missed. We know that he did had issues with a particular group. And again, it’s a whole George Street fraction, as you would know that there’s a division in the George Street fraction and there was a group that was against him. But Bobo have always maintained his cool. And despite knowing that division and that and he mostly was there, he still felt comfortable moving in the area where the other factions were, hoping that the fact that he has been an elder, that he would be respected. But I guess what he had hoped for did not work out well for him.”

 

Reporter

”How close is the department in bringing charges against these alleged killers?”

 

Chester Williams

“We are working on that. We have a number of video footage that we are viewing. We have very good clues. It’s just a matter of us trying to put the pieces together. I will try to arrange for the investigators to see the DPP with the video footage and see if she’ll be able to provide some guidance to the police in terms of how we can proceed with the video footage that we currently have.”