SAN ANTONIO, Corozal District, Wed. June 23, 2021– This morning, tragedy struck the village of San Antonio, Corozal, when a resident of the village, 34-year-old Artie Hall, who has had a history of epileptic seizures, apparently toppled into the local water well, and died as a result.

Reports are that the well-liked village handyman was doing his usual work in the village, fetching water for his neighbor and cousin, Minely Gilharry, but she became aware that something had gone wrong after hours passed and he had not returned to collect payment for the work he had done earlier.

According to Gilharry, he had asked her to lend him a bucket in which he could wash some pants and some bottles, and she had agreed, but when he never returned, she became concerned and went to his mother’s house.

That is when they began to search frantically for Hall, a search that eventually led them back to the well. One resident used a long stick to probe the contents of the well, and after that resident trawled through the water in the well for a short time, eventually the victim’s slipper emerged. They eventually found his body, keeled over in the water, motionless, hours after it was noticed that he was missing.

His family believes that he suffered an epileptic episode and fell into the well, drowning in the process.

“Every day he come home, he woulda come and sleep and lay down and then from deh he goh again and da right soh, everybody know him as a good person, a handy person fi everybody da San Antonio,” his mother told local media.

The family is asking the public for donations to pay for funeral expenses to lay their loved one to rest. Anyone willing to assist can call 623-0317.