{"id":81405,"date":"2026-02-07T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/?p=81405"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:39:03","slug":"i-just-saw-him-yesterday-family-grieves-sparrow-after-dangriga-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/i-just-saw-him-yesterday-family-grieves-sparrow-after-dangriga-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Just Saw Him Yesterday\u201d: Family Grieves &#8220;Sparrow&#8221; After Dangriga Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shooting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/family-seeks-justice-after-dangriga-machete-killing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dangriga<\/a> Town has claimed the life of Bernaldo Gorosica, better known as \u201cSparrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gorosica was shot in the Riverside area on Friday evening. He was a well-known figure from the &#8220;Salty Dog&#8221; area, remembered by family and friends as a cheerful fisherman who always carried a smile.<\/p>\n<p>While police continue their investigation into the shooting, Sparrow\u2019s cousin says the loss is deeply personal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a fisherman, cool person, always happy, full ah vibes, always have ah big smile pan his face,\u201d she told News Five. \u201cTalking bout him bring tears to my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that Gorosica was a father of two sons and said she had spoken with him just a day before his death. \u201cI just saw him yesterday, he hail me and ask me if I alright with a big smile. He neva pass me and nuh hail me\u2026 still can\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police investigations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shooting in Dangriga Town has claimed the life of Bernaldo Gorosica, better known as \u201cSparrow.\u201d Gorosica was shot in the Riverside area on Friday evening. He was a well-known figure from the &#8220;Salty Dog&#8221; area, remembered by family and friends as a cheerful fisherman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":81406,"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":[484,444,475,3209],"tags":[10562,10561],"class_list":["post-81405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-news","category-shooting","tag-i-just-saw-him-yesterday-family-grieves-sparrow-after-dangriga-shooting","tag-2026-02-07"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81405","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81407,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81405\/revisions\/81407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}