Cole Bay:--- At least three families were mourning the loss of their loves ones who were brutally murdered in separate incidents between Friday and Saturday morning. In Cole Bay, relatives, the wife, two children, co-workers and many neighbors and friends of Foidel Louis born on July 21 1964 in Haiti are wondering who brutally murdered their loved one while he was on his way to work at L'Esperance Hotel on Friday night. Louis is described as being a quiet and a friendly man who works more than one job to take care of his family. At his home, his wife, sister and two children were wailing at their sudden loss.Louis was also an employee of Prime Distributers said his bereaved wife Francia Louis.
According to Mrs. Louis, her husband works for Prime Distributers during the day and at night he works for Capital Security. She said on Friday evening her husband started his shift at Port de Plaisance from 7pm and at 10pm he left that location, to go to the other location, the L'Esperance Hotel in Cay Hill where he would work from 11pm to 5am.
Louis's 14-year old daughter, Neaphanie said her father reached home just after 10pm to collect his food and to check on them before leaving to go to work at L'Esperance Hotel. "When my father came home he ate, took some food to take to work, then he sat on the couch for a few minutes before leaving the house." The teenager said her father told her he was going to take a bus to Cay Hill to work but she is not sure if he caught a bus or gypsy to reach his destination.
His wife said on weekends she would normally use the family car since she works at night during the weekends while her husband would take the bus. She said usually her husband would call her at 04:30am so she would go to Cay Hill and pick him up but on Saturday morning he did not call her. Francia said when she woke at 6am she noticed that her husband did not call her, she said she began calling his phone and there was no answer.
The woman said her daughter tried calling her father when they saw he was not coming home and by 8am they decided to call another relative to inform them that Fiodel did not return home from work and he was not answering his phone. "Fiodel has a brother who also works for Capital Security so I asked my sister in law to call her brother to ask him what happened to Fiodel because he did not return home. At some point I received a phone call from my sister in law who told me that Fiodel did not go work at L' Esperance on Friday night so I decided I was going to the hospital to see if my husband had gotten into an accident."Francia said when she reached Cay Hill she saw a number of police vehicles and the coroner so she stopped and approached the police and informed them that she did not hear from her husband through the night and she wanted to know if the person they are attending to was her husband. "The police told me to go back inside my car and at some point, one of them approached me and asked me if I had a photograph of my husband which I gave to them. Shortly after, they told me the man they found in the bushes was my husband and that he was dead." Francia further explained that she asked the police to see her husband so that she could be sure that it was him but they refused to let her see him. She said she was told to go to Royal Funeral Home but when she reached there the undertakers told her to return on Monday. Other relatives of the deceased man said up to now police has not given them permission to see the victim.
Fiodel Louis has been living on St. Maarten since 1987 he leaves to mourn his wife and two teenage children, Jeffrey Louis (16) and Neaphanie Louis (14).
According to police, a woman walking her dog around 6am on Saturday morning discovered the body of Fiodel Louis. Police Spokesman Ricardo Henson said they believe the Security Guard was beaten to death.
