A Texas woman living in Belize has died after being hit in the head by a conch shell during a fight that broke out when her husband crashed their golf cart into a bar in the Caribbean country, officials said.
Jennifer Lynn Griffith, 46, was riding with husband Maynor Rene Ancona, 41, who was driving Saturday morning in San Pedro, a town in Ambergis Caye that Madonna made famous with “Las Isla Bonita,” Channel 5 Belize reported.
He crashed the cart into the El Norte Bar, leading to a fight between the couple and the booze joint’s employees, police Commissioner Chester Williams told the news outlet.
At one point during the brawl, someone threw a conch shell at Griffith, striking her in the head, according to the top cop, who said she suffered a concussion.
“She went to the polyclinic with the police and she refused medical treatment and self-discharged herself from the clinic and went home,” Williams said.
“The next morning, she seemingly was having pain and she went back to the clinic where she succumbed [to her death],” he said. “At this time, we are not able to say what the cause of death is — if she died as a result of the conch shell or as a result of the accident.”
An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of death, Williams said, adding that it was not immediately clear if alcohol was involved in the incident.
When asked whether a bar employee had thrown the conch shell, he said he was unsure, but added that it was “one of the persons involved in the brawl.”
Williams also said that after Griffith left the San Pedro Polyclinic, “she had indicated to the police that she didn’t want anything against those individuals.”
Police have reportedly detained several people, who will “at the very least” be charged with disorderly conduct, according to the news outlet.
Griffith was originally from Texas and had been living on Ambergis Caye for several years, local news outlet lovefm.com reported.
