Alfred Schakron

Fouad "Alfred" Schakron (; 6 June 1961 – 24 October 2012) was a Belizean businessman and the ex-husband of People's United Party political hopeful Yolanda Schakron. He was murdered in broad daylight outside a Belize City gym, leaving police mystified as to the motive or the identity of the killers.

Biography Shakroun was born and raised in Sidon District, Lebanon. He came from a large family of nine people, among whom he was one of six who chose to emigrate from Lebanon. He came to Belize in the mid-1990s, and had lived there for 16 years by the time of his death. He was astute at business and achieved financial success, enabling him to live in a three-storey mansion in Buttonwood Bay with two maids. Coye later retained lawyers Elson Kaseke and Anthony Sylvestre and filed suit against Schakron for malicious prosecution in relation to the incident. Schakron was defended by Rodwell Williams. The matter came before Justice Oswell Legall, who in 2010 ruled against Coye and ordered him to pay Schakron's legal costs. Legall stated that he did not believe Coye's statements and was furthermore concerned about the chilling effect the case might have on private citizens reporting potentially unlawful activity to the police.

Schakron was formerly married to Yolanda Schakron, with whom he had two children, but then divorced. The gunman alighted and had a conversation or argument with Schakron in a foreign language, possibly Arabic.

Schakron was the second man of Lebanese extraction to be murdered in Belize City in the space of less than a day, a fact made all the more remarkable because there are only 240 Lebanese people residing in Belize. Police had no immediate leads or motive for the murder.