A high-profile real estate developer from Colorado was found fatally shot in Belize over the weekend, and police say it could have been the result of a professional hit job by a disgruntled business associate, according to local reports.
Boris Mannsfeld, 56, was found lying face down on the floor of his yard Friday night with a bullet wound to the back of his head, local media outlet Breaking News Belize (BNB) reported.
The deadly incident took place at The Villas at Cocoplum in Maya Beach, a luxury villa complex Mannsfeld helped build in the small Central American country. In 2010, he set up his own development firm in Belize, Boris Mannsfeld and Associates, four years after he moved to the country on a permanent basis with his family.
Boris Mannsfeld, left, a real estate developer from Colorado, was found fatally shot on Friday in Belize. (LinkedIn, left, Getty Images / iStock, top right, eff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images, bottom right.)
A profile of Mannsfeld on his company’s website details how he “fell in love” with the country on his first trip there in 1992 and then made it his “barefoot paradise” in 2006. He spent 10 years in the U.S. working in real estate before moving to Belize, a former British colony bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east and Guatemala to the west and south.
He’s described as enjoying endurance mountain biking, road biking, and snow skiing, among other activities.
Mannsfeld’s business sells condos, land plots and other properties in Belize. It also states Mannsfeld was also involved in hotel projects, a concrete company and a renewable energy company.
News of Mannsfeld’s death comes after three American women were found dead from a possible overdose at a beach resort in Belize from a possible overdose.
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