Police are searching for two men in connection with the murder of a sister of a police officer who is on remand at the Belize Central Prison, after he was charged in January this year with the murder of a 19-year-old man outside a nightclub.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero told reporters that Jane Urbina, who was also pregnant, was gunned down while waiting at a bus stop last Saturday.
Urbina and her mother were enroute to San Ignacio after visiting her brother, Police Constable Lionel Rodolfo Urbina, 22, when they were ambushed by two men who arrived on a motorcycle.
One of the men fired several shots at Urbina, wounding her in the abdomen before escaping.
Emergency responders transported Urbina to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. The doctors were also unable to save her unborn child.
Police said that they have recovered several 9mm expended shell casings at the scene, and Romero said officers have recorded an eyewitness account from the victim’s mother.
Romero said the police are quite certain that the sister of the police officer was the intended target, as the gunman approached her and shot her alone, adding that the fact that the killers were able to accost the victim at the bus stop, indicated that they had prior knowledge of her movements and location.
A motorist who witnessed the shooting is reported to have pursued the gunmen forcing their motorcycle off the road. But the two fugitives escaped into the nearby bushes.
The police officer is charged with killing Kevin Matthew Depaz, who was stabbed outside a nightclub where he was working as a security guard, on June 30, 2025. He is also charged with two counts of attempted murder in connection with the wounding of Depaz’s friends, Julian Canul, 18, and Newsean Allen, 25, who were also injured in the altercation.