Police Provide More Details on Arrests in Retaliatory Murder of Luis Marin

Two Belize City men, Scorian Stuart, 18, and Michael Gillett, 23, were arrested and charged with the murder of Luis Marin, which occurred on Tuesday, April 8. They were charged with the crime of murder.

A.C.P. Hilberto Romero, Regional Commander for the Eastern Division, confirmed that the murder of Luis Marin was an act of retaliation. “Yes, that is the information we have received. It is retaliation for that incident.”

Marin had been a suspect in a previous shooting incident in Belmopan, which occurred on Saturday, April 5. The incident, widely circulated on social media, showed three men fleeing from a car while shots were fired at them. Following this, Marin was found dead inside his home in Belize City’s Majestic Alley area just days later.

“They had some interaction with those persons, and that is what led to this murder,” he explained. However, he clarified that Stuart and Gillett were not in the vehicle involved in the Belmopan shooting. “We don’t have information that they were in that vehicle,” Romero said.

At the time of his murder, Marin was wanted for questioning in relation to the Belmopan shooting. “He was inside a house at the time he was targeted.”

Police have detained several individuals in connection with the investigation, though no further arrests have been made.

“So far no one else has been arrested for any of the incident,” Romero noted.