Still No Arrests in Cedar Street Double Murder

It’s been over three weeks since the senseless murders of 66-year-old Evadne Jones and her disabled son, 39-year-old Luke Jones.  Sadly, the Police have not made any arrests and are still gathering information. The mother and son were returning home on the night of Friday, July 4, when they were gunned down just after entering their yard on Cedar Street in Belize City. It is suspected that their deaths were the result of a gang feud flare-up that was instigated by a TikTok video made by Evadne’s other son, Patrick “Pato” Jones, who is in the United States. Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa was on The Morning Show today and said that police have detained suspects, but no charges have been filed. 

Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs: “Unfortunately that murder took place within a very, in a gang neighborhood so to speak and so information is not forthcoming from that neighborhood. It’s one of the more difficult things to police when you have gang violence taking place in an actual gang neighborhood. We didn’t have any cameras that are in that specific area. We are checking the neighborhood cameras from private establishments and so far initially the police had two suspects, they had detained them, questioned them but the investigation is still ongoing and I want to encourage any members of the public who might have information or leads to call the police and provide us with that information but there are two individuals police are looking at, no arrests have been made as yet. The Ministry of Home Affairs and the police department obviously we would discourage and condemn that type of promulgating of violence because it was one individual from the United States saying you can’t do anything to me, I could harm your family over here and I know you wouldn’t dare touch my mother and so it was almost like a dare so to speak and there was no information that anyone would have actually acted on that dare because crime and violence in Belize has never gone to that point. And so it just goes to show you the new level that we’re at that some of our young men actually don’t even value mothers, don’t even value the handicapped anymore that they would take such drastic action in response to a TikTok video, a TitkTok dare so to speak.”

Musa says that steps have been taken to address possible retaliatory violence in the area. He also said that Pato Jones will be charged if he comes back to Belize, over threats that he has made on TikTok.