Authorities in Belize are trying to find and talk to Internet
antivirus pioneer John McAfee about a fatal shooting in the Central
American nation, a police spokesman said Monday.
"He is
wanted for questioning in the murder of Gregory Faull, and we are still
seeking him," said Raphael Martinez, a national police spokesman.
A
housekeeper discovered Faull's body in a hallway of his home with a
gunshot wound to the back of his head, according to Martinez and a
notice on the national police's website. Police later arrived at the
home north of San Pedro, on the Caribbean island of Ambergris Caye, and
found the 52-year-old Faull "lying face-up in a pool of blood,"
according to the police website.
Police later found a 9mm shell
at the bottom of stairs near Faull. Accounts differ as to when this took
place. Martinez said Faull, who lived alone near McAfee, was found
Saturday morning. The police website, meanwhile, states the body was
found around 8 a.m. Sunday and that Faull was last seen alive around 10
p.m. Saturday.
Authorities investigating the homicide are
speaking to another person as they pursue multiple leads, said Martinez.
A laptop computer and cell phone are missing from Faull's home.
According to the spokesman, police have not established a motive in the
killing.
McAfee left his namesake Internet security firm in 1994
and has not been affiliated with the firm since then, said company
spokeswoman Kimberly Eichorn. Citing its policy not to comment on former
employees, Eichorn did not comment on the case. CNN could not determine
McAfee's current whereabouts or whether he has a lawyer.
According
to a story on Wired magazine's website, McAfee said regarding Faull's
death that he knew "nothing, other than I heard he had been shot."
McAfee told Wired that he's been at odds with Belizean authorities for
months, adding that he's hiding from them somewhere in the country.
According
to his alma mater, Roanoke College, McAfee graduated from that Virginia
school in 1967 as a mathematics major. He went on to found several tech
companies and launch groundbreaking products, including a voice
recognition system Interpath in 1981, McAfee in 1988, and the instant
messaging pioneer Tribal Voice in 1996.
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE....AMEN
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