Today, police said they responded quickly and detained the suspect shortly after the killing. Here's how the communications officer laid it out for the media today:
ASP FitzRoy Yearwood, Communications Officer
"Police responded to an area in San Pedrito, San Pedro Town in an unknown street where they saw the body of Hilberto Caliz, a carpenter, apparently dead. We received information that he was riding from home in that area when he was approach by another Hispanic male person who fired several shots at him. We have that other person already in custody and we are hoping to bring some form of charges to him soon. The motive of that shooting is still unknown to police, but quick police respond led us to detain one person that we believe is the orchestrator of that crime."
"The information that we gathered is that he was just riding home from work on what you would call the usual route that he takes, because we know that he was a contractor and this is just his normal routine when he was attacked."
Reporter
"It was suggested to us that surveillance footage in the area may have captured some element of this gun attack on tape. Is there any accuracy to that?"
ASP FitzRoy Yearwood, Communications Officer
"Like I said we have one person detained and hopefully that the investigators can put it together properly and we would see whether or not charges would be levied."
This evening, police confirmed that they had formally arrested and charged Julio Rafael Paiz, an 18- year-old, Belizean Unemployed of San Pedro Town for the crime of Murder.
