At the top of the newscast you saw the arraignment of the two persons accused of Dr Naun Bonilla's murder.
But, why would anyone execute the doctor the way they did? Police say he was not linked to any criminal activity. However, he was in a business dispute with the accused Hannah Foreman. We took a deeper look at the legal exchanges between the two:
Angel Bonilla, Brother of Deceased
"People and you know involved in the medical field."
A partnership formed with each of them investing $50,000 dollars - Foreman did this when she was 24 years old.
And then in January of 2026, the business secured a lucrative NHI services contract.
Foreman said in her deposition that's when Bonilla tried to push her out of the business.
But he told his family that's when he found out she was trying to steal the contract from their partnership:
Angel Bonilla, Brother of Deceased
"The final straw that took my brother make the decision to take this to court was with the NHI contract that they had bid for. When the contract was, when they won the bid, they still hadn't signed the contract, she had corresponded back to NHI stating that the contract would be signed under a different business name, a business that had nothing to do with my brother. Now being my brother was part of the application, they called him to say, Bonilla, what is happening, because we just received this correspondence and he said categorically this business has nothing to do with me, this business is not my business, I have no interest in this business, and this contract cannot be signed because that business is not the one that we bid under. We found out that business belonged solely to Ms Hannah Foreman."
The revelation forced Bonilla to get an attorney and send her a lawyer letter with an offer to buy her out of the business. In the letter, he alleged financial misappropriation, clinical and administrative malpractice, and unauthorized ownership change and forging the doctor's signature on official documents submitted to the Belize Companies and Corporate Affairs Registry allegedly to execute an unauthorized ownership change.
Angel Bonilla, Brother of Deceased
"My brother had been gathering evidence for over a year because he realized that on days that he wouldn't be here all day, business was bad or there would be only two or three transactions for the smallest amounts of monies possible."
"And then my brother started even going as far as coming back at the end of the day going through the days activities and collecting even trash and so he was able to put back together some of the receipts."
But, she rejected those conclusions and filed suit against the Doctor - also rejecting his $20,000 dollar buyout offer. She said that since February he had illegally locked her out of the business and taken steps to oust her completely. That was an illegal breach of the terms of the partnership and she asked the court to dissolve the partnership.
Her suit was processed on April 20th - and Bonilla was executed 6 weeks later on May 29th. Police believe the business dispute was the motive:
ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer
"That is certainly the aspect that this investigation is disclosing, namely a dispute over a business situation gone awry."
Reporter
"Did he ever feel like his life was threatened?"
Angel Bonilla, Brother of Deceased
"Never. That I know if. But, again, maybe he was trying to shield us or just to keep it to himself but I never perceived that from him nor form her. Because we used to come in here and she would smile with us. And she would talk to us because we know where she is from, we know her background."
But, if police are correct, they did not know how far she might go:
Jules Vasquez
"Is there an indication why, you know, if you're many people involved in civil suits involving large sums of money, is there any indication why she allegedly would have escalated it to take out a hit on the doctor?"
ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer
"I don't think there is any situation that can justify any allegation of anybody or any propensity of anybody to decide to step aside from the lawfully organized court system when it comes to the ventilating grievances to escalating it elsewhere."
Angel Bonilla, Brother of Deceased
"And it did not even come to my mind, it slipped my mind completely that she would ever ever consider anything other than settling you know, legally, you know like a normal person would do."
ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer
"Persons who have gone on and acquired education and acquired a level of comfort and professional thrive, thriving professionally, resorting to those in the vulnerable communities to be tools for them is very disheartening and for me it is an indication of the moral degradation and the fact that education alone does not secure morality."
Angel Bonilla, Brother of Deceased
"I think he was fooled by her. She was able to….to, to, just….she was a snake man, that is it."
Jules Vasquez
"I have to ask, was there any personal aspect to their relationship."
Angel Bonilla, Brother of Deceased "No."
We stress that no criminal complaint for theft had been made against Hannah Foreman.
As for the litigation, it was in its early stages, and the court found that the matter had to go to full trial.
