On Friday, April 24, 2020, a group of four persons headed to an 11-foot deep manmade pond near the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville Village, Belize. While four persons went there, only three made it back alive, and those three persons are being questioned by police about the mysterious drowning of the fourth person. He is 22-year-old Nigel Welch, a resident of the village, who made his way to the pit along with his stepfather and two others. But one question that many who knew him are asking is why he was in the water being that he did not know how to swim? As such, the police are tasked with answering that, among other questions his family and loved ones undoubtedly have.
By the time Welch’s body was retrieved from the pond by civilian first responders, he had already been under for almost an hour. Not only was Welch unable to swim, but it also seems that he got tangled under the water, having no fighting chance of saving himself.
Welch’s family is weary of the incident, however, saying that Welch never got along with his stepfather nor the other two persons who were at the pond with him. They say that the quartet went fishing but, according to one of the first responders, there are no fish in the water. This makes the story as it is being presented all the more difficult to believe. There is, however, no indication of foul play but the police are continuing their investigation into this matter.
