Man Found Stabbed to Death in Ladyville Supermarket Parking Area

Police are investigating a homicide following the discovery of a man’s body at a supermarket parking area in Ladyville yesterday afternoon.  According to police, at about 2:00 p.m., officers attached to the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) responded to reports of a motionless body in an area behind the New Moon Supermarket on the Philip Goldson Highway. Upon arrival, police observed the body of a light-complexioned male lying face up on a wooden pallet with apparent stab wounds.  The man was later identified as 26-year-old Patrick Josh Uh, a Belizean driver of Lord’s Bank Village, Belize District. Police say a knife with a black handle and a broken silver blade was found beneath the palm of his left hand.  Briefing the media on the preliminary findings, Stacy Smith, Assistant Superintendent of Police, detailed what officers encountered when they responded to the scene and the early direction of the investigation.

Stacy Smith, Superintendent of Police: “Police in Ladyville were alerted of the presence of an unresponsive male person in the freight truck parking lot behind the New Moon supermarket which is located in Ladyville Village Belize District. The investigators upon their arrival at the scene observed the unresponsive body of a male person who was later learned to be Patrick Uh, a 26-year-old Belizean driver of Lord’s Bank Village. The body of Mr. Uh exhibited apparent stab wounds. Police are in the process of reviewing a number of video footage and it is hoped that these footage will assist in the ongoing investigation.”

Police further revealed that shortly before 2:00 p.m., the supermarket’s security guard was approached by a Hispanic male whose description remains unknown. The individual reportedly informed the guard that a body was in the parking lot and then left the area, stating that he did not want to be involved.  Speaking with Love News, the victim’s spouse, Roxana Aldana, said it was normal for her husband to go out and return home in the early mornings.

Roxana Aldana, Wife: “Minutes to 7:30 he called me again and asked me if I wanted he could come meet me by the clinic and I told him no because he sounded like he was drinking and I told him no I would go home by myself and I didn’t want anything to happen to him out there. Then when I reached home I didn’t see him home and I said that he must have been hanging with his friends and he didn’t reach home back and I was hoping to see him Sunday morning but nothing. Then I just started to do my chores because it was my day off so around minutes to two o’clock in the evening they called me and they told me that they saw my boy out there but they weren’t sure what happened to him. So I went and I went to check because while I was going over I was praying that maybe he was drunk and he was just out there and I could just bring him. When I reached the place I saw police cars and the caution sign and then I was like he didn’t have anything with him, they didn’t find his phone, no ID or nothing. So I showed his social and the last clothes that I saw him was what he had on so I said that was my boyfriend, my baby’s father. But they didn’t want me to go see him, they didn’t tell me anything or what happened to him until I went to see him and I saw the blood and I was like “they killed my boy. They killed him.”

Reporter: How many kids do you have ? 

Roxana Aldana, Wife: “One, she’s four but now she’s asking when daddy will come back home. I don’t know what to tell her but when the day comes she will understand where her daddy went and thing but it’s hard for me because he was not a problem person or nothing. He was loving.”

Uh was an employee at Medina’s Construction.  His body was later transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m.  Police say investigations are ongoing and are urging anyone with information that may assist in the case to come forward.