{"id":81431,"date":"2026-02-08T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/?p=81431"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:45:01","slug":"double-murder-under-investigation-in-punta-gorda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/double-murder-under-investigation-in-punta-gorda\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Murder Under Investigation in Punta Gorda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a double murder that occurred Saturday night at a residence on Queen Street in Punta Gorda Town.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the incident happened around 8:00 p.m. while several people were gathered at the home of 24-year-old Luis Barillas. Investigators say a lone gunman, described as slim-built and wearing a grey hoodie, went to the residence and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>Barillas and 43-year-old Derrick Arnold were both shot multiple times. They were transported to the Punta Gorda Hospital, where they were pronounced dead shortly after arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Initial police information suggests the suspect may have gone to the residence to purchase drugs before the situation escalated.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a double murder that occurred Saturday night at a residence on Queen Street in Punta Gorda Town. According to police, the incident happened around 8:00 p.m. while several people were gathered at the home of 24-year-old Luis Barillas. Investigators say a lone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":81432,"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":[484,452,3447,444,475,3209],"tags":[10568,10570],"class_list":["post-81431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","category-death","category-latest-news","category-news","category-shooting","tag-2026-02-08","tag-double-murder-under-investigation-in-punta-gorda"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81431","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=81431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81463,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81431\/revisions\/81463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}