{"id":79842,"date":"2026-01-26T19:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/?p=79842"},"modified":"2026-01-26T19:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:44:47","slug":"investigation-stalled-in-fatal-lords-bank-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/investigation-stalled-in-fatal-lords-bank-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation Stalled in Fatal Lord\u2019s Bank Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police are still trying to piece together what happened the night thirty\u2011five\u2011year\u2011old security guard Darwin Valerio was gunned down while on duty at the Belize Water Services warehouse in Lord\u2019s Bank. It\u2019s been several days since the deadly shooting, and so far, investigators have not made an arrest. This morning, reporters pressed police for answers on the stalled investigation. But according to Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero, the probe hasn\u2019t yet pointed them to a suspect. He says the team is continuing to follow leads as they work to bring Valerio\u2019s killer to justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_79784\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79784\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-26-18h39m33s189-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"ACP Hilberto Romero\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-26-18h39m33s189-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-26-18h39m33s189-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-26-18h39m33s189-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-26-18h39m33s189-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-26-18h39m33s189-1300x731.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-26-18h39m33s189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-79784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0ACP Hilberto Romero<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>ACP Hilberto Romero, Head, National Crime Investigation Branch <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFollow up work was done on that murder again, we have some video footage. Those are being reviewed. At this time no one has been arrested and charged.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You have ruled out any possible involvement of the coworker?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACP Hilberto Romero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are doing an investigation. At this time we don\u2019t have any evidence on him, so the investigation continues.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You mean surveillance footage from the entity?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACP Hilberto Romero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat is correct, and other cameras that are in the neighborhood.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are still trying to piece together what happened the night thirty\u2011five\u2011year\u2011old security guard Darwin Valerio was gunned down while on duty at the Belize Water Services warehouse in Lord\u2019s Bank. It\u2019s been several days since the deadly shooting, and so far, investigators have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":79821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,452,444,475],"tags":[9935,10210],"class_list":["post-79842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","category-latest-news","category-news","tag-2026-01-26","tag-investigation-stalled-in-fatal-lords-bank-shooting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79843,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79842\/revisions\/79843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}