We didn't have any weekend murders to report last night - and the whole country was surely glad for the break from homicidal violence - especially after a very heavy weekend of COVID casualties.
And just as we were all trying to get past that, then came double murder Monday night: two men killed within minutes of each other on the southside of Belize City.
We start tonight with the murder of 26-year-old Keith Courtenay.
He was gunned down on Ebony street and if his name sounds familiar that's because he's the son of Keith Courtney Sr. who back in March was also killed in the very same area.
Cherisse Halsall brought you that story, and today she went back there to speak to a woman who lost both son and grandson in less than a year.
This is the verandah on which Keith Courtenay Jr made his unknowing last stand.
Police say that his assailants barged into this yard firing the shots that would prove fatal. This morning I visited Courtenay's grandmother, she says that while she wasn't anywhere near the yard she heard every single shot.
Lorraine Courtenay, Grandmother of the deceased
"The only thing I heard was six bullets, six, you know six shot. I didnt know who got shot because I was in my bed and I wouldnt have come outside. My daughter who lives over there, Elaine, she told me she said Chinci, they killed Chinchi last night, I said what?"
Courtenay was called "Chinchi" because he was his father's Jr.
Lorraine Courtenay, Grandmother of the deceased
"I said Chinchi because it looks like he stays at a house down yonder with one of his friends and he must of come way here to come buy something cause they midi dodge ah because they way how I hear they say it dah somebody I don't know who killed him."
"He would come in the daytime and just sit down there, he sits down here with granny and he and I talk, or sometimes he comes in here he would want a glass of water I tell him go take it. He doesn't mess around he was working and he has his children, he has a baby."
Courtenay had two children. His common-law wife who spoke to us off-camera is the mother of his younger daughter.
Voice of: Courtneay's Common Law wife
"All I saw were three missed called and then I saw the text, they killed Keith, so when I came the family members were already on the area and the family members were in the yard where they usually gather around and they had already rushed him to the hospital."
"He was my first everything, he gave me my daughter who I'm thankful for everyday and when I'm at work he spends most of the time with she so it was like a father daughter bond that no one can get between."
"I don't know how I will explain to her that her dad is gone. All I can say is that he was a good man and he took care of his two girls."
A family robbed of two fathers, leaving their children to a much harder struggle than they could have expected. It's a sentiment that Courtney's uncle lamented back when his brother was killed.
Edmund Williams, Uncle of the deceased
"This going right down the drain just like all the rest of the murders just like how I see mothers crying on TV my mom will cry the same way, my sisters and brothers will cry the same way. We will have the memories in our hearts and thing right, the rest of the country is just gonna forget. It's just another black man dead, another black father dead."
Lorraine Courtenay, Grandmother of the deceased
"My son they dead, they killed him too they killed him down yonder by the gambling table, he was, he had his little grandson with him but he didn't get shot, he got over him."
Voice of: Courtneay's Common Law wife
"It's rough, it's rough nobody would have ever expected that, that would have come a second time knocked on the door and said alright it's his turn to go."
"He's with the father now, we can't do anything about it we just have to give thanks for the time that he was here and the memories that we share with him."
Keith Courtneay Jr leaves behind two daughters, a 7 year old and a 2 year old.
