Since January third, 29-year-old Louie Gentle, better known as Louie Ganzie, has been Belize's most wanted. On that Wednesday morning, he allegedly stabbed his common law wife and the mother of his two children, Keisha Sutherland twenty times. He left her for dead, and has been on the run for two weeks. Police launched a national search, only to find him today right in the heart of the city. Jules Vasquez has been following the story.
Jules Vasquez Reporting,
At 1:23 pm, Superintendent of Police Edward Broaster pulled up to the rear of the Queen Street Station with Louie Ganzie in the back seat. On this day Ganzie had no turban, he wore a hooded Adidas rain jacket and when he faced the camera, he had only one thing to say.
Louie Ganzie: "Selassie."
He was escorted into the compound where the first thing he asked for was a plate of food. Police took him into the canteen where he ate and 15 minutes later, he came out to face the cameras, and again, he gave the greeting of a devout Rastafarian.
Louie Ganzie: "Selassie."
One and a half hours later, CIB boss Superintendent Chester Williams escorted him to Magistrate's Court to face a murder charge.
And like the celebrity fugitive he has become - even at his arraignment for murder, Ganzie drew a crowd. But there was no crowd today at this open lot on Freetown Road. That's where Broaster and his team found Ganzie. He was alone, and did not attempt to run, as he freely surrendered to police. He would later tell the police that he had been hiding out in the St. Martin's area and came out for a breather. That's when he was spotted.
And perhaps it's fitting that Broaster is the one who picked up Ganzie - because that's what he pretended to do in 1998, when Ganzie was first breaking unto the scene. This is a scene from the music video mama one son. It was produced by Channel 7 and in it Ganzie played the role of a wayward youth - who had committed murder - and was - you already know the ending -caught by Broaster. But that was video, today was reality - and as far back as 1998, he already knew what he was facing.
Louie Ganzie, Captured
[1998] "The law is not playing when it comes to dealing with those kinds of things. The message behind the lyrics is just the youths to know what you go through when you get hold and all the feelings you go through when you've done a murder and you end up in jail, locked down, can't get any bail, and you can't even get food to eat and different thing."
Prophetic, but perhaps no one could save Ganzie from his own fate - which he foretold in song.
Clip of Ganzie's Mama One Son (See it [On Demand)]
Art eerily imitating life and in one more chilling irony what he sang in the song, is that's just what he told police today; that he hadn't turned himself in because he wanted to talk to his mother first. Now this mama one son, has to live out the prophecy of his own hit song.
In court, Ganzie gave his particulars, but nothing else, only reciting the word "blessed" to everything Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie put to him. He has been remanded and will re-appear on January 25th.
