It’s possibly one of the most heartbreaking murders to ever occur within the quiet community of Hattieville, a broad daylight killing. and family members of the deceased’s family have ruled out the possibility of it being a robbery. I spoke to the Esquilliano and Belisle families this morning at their homes. Here’s how it went.

They came into this world together and they left together as well. This has been the only comfort to a grieving family of closely knit relatives, after losing both of their loved ones to gun violence yesterday afternoon in Hattieville village. 57 year old Paul Esquillano had gone to visit his twin sister Paula Belisle as he routinely would, when a gunman entered his sister’s house and fatally shot them both while they were socializing. It’s a kind of tragedy that leaves this family with more questions than answers. And as we spoke to Esquillano’s wife this morning, with her sister in law cuddled up in her arms and her son at her side, she told us why she never imagined losing her husband of 35 years this way.

Lydia Esquilliano, Wife of Deceased
“My Husband was everything, for his family and for him, I believe I was everything. Since he retired he did everything for me I don’t know about going to town, I don’t know about shopping, I don’t know what the house needs because he would check before if we are using the last egg he knows and he brings a tray in before the day is out, my husband does everything for us. Whatever I want, and whatever I need my husband would do it even if he had to say “spoiley” see it here because I know he had me spoiled. And he would refer to me as “spoiley” whenever he did something for me he didn’t really want to do. But the love he had for me and the love we shared I just cannot understand , nobody, nobody could have told me that my husband could have died from a gunshot. My husband does not even want a water gun in his house and he would not even allow his children or grandchildren to play with a gun, no toy gun from the day they were born he hates the gun I cannot understand and I am sure as fate that my husband does not even know how to hold a gun.”

Belisle’s daughter who flew in to be at her mother’s side says she held onto the hope that her mom would have pulled through, when she got the first call that her mom had been shot. But when her sister updated her that her mom didn’t make it, it completely shattered her world.

Sharlette Belisle, Daughter of Deceased
“I never in my wildest dreams thought honestly that my mom, much less my uncle would be shot, more so in her home I never thought of it. I thought that my mom would grow old with us and we had many memories to share and to make. She was excited and full of life and she was talking about doing a lot of things just for today alone. She had a full schedule of things she wanted to do. I never imagined that gun violence would meet my mom and my uncle especially as we say they are god fearing and never troubled anybody all their lives. They have never and so for this to meet them in this manner it is very shocking.”

The way grief continues to impact these families, it’s unlike anything they have ever experienced and endured. Not just because they lost a pair, but more so because of how they lost them.

Lydia Esquilliano, Wife of Deceased
“I am at a loss for words and I just want everyone to know that he was loved and my sister in law was his world. They were born together and they did everything for each other and after she lost her husband and her baby he decided there is not a day I won’t go to visit my sister. When he died the only thing different on that day was the time that he visited. He is usually there at 4, after 4 yesterday he went earlier because he ran an errand for me and he said I am in the area so I will see Paula right now. I am at a loss that there are cruel people like this in Belize honestly I cannot ever imagine that somebody could ever be that heartless.”

“How will you want to remember your husband?”

Lydia Esquilliano, Wife of Deceased
“As the best man , and one person asked me 14 years ago how you found such a good man? And I would say I just got the last good one that was there because I won’t find anymore like him and I literally was genuinely saying it when I said it, I got the last good man.”

Sharlette Belisle, Daughter of Deceased
“My Mom was an all around caregiver for anybody you needed something you can call on my mom she would be there to help you as a parent, as a mother she was very supportive in school growing up with us achieving our goals she had a very close relationship with her family especially her twin brother Paul.”

“It’s not an easy thing for anybody, any child to have to go through, particularly for our family because we have lost our dad and our sister in the span of a year. And so now to lose my mom and my uncle especially in this manner it is very difficult for the family as you can imagine.”

Belisle was shot 6 times. One of the key suspects may be a police officer.