DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (FOX 9) – Family members say Beau Shroyer wanted to help people. So it made sense that he and his wife and five children would move to Angola in Africa to feed hungry children.

“Beau was a rock. He had integrity. He was consistent. He was honest,” said Beau’s cousin, Bret Shroyer.

But what doesn’t make sense is how the former Detroit Lakes police officer and real estate agent lost his life half a world away from home.

“It’s a shock. It’s terrible. It’s not something anyone would have expected,” Bret said.

He Angolan Press Agency says a security guard at Shroyer’s home and another man in his 20s have been arrested in an alleged murder-for-hire plot that led to Shroyer’s death. A third man is currently on the run.

The agency says Shroyer was lured to a remote area outside the town of Lubango by the suspects, who pretended to have car trouble, where Shroyer was stabbed to death with an American-made knife that police recovered as evidence. , along with around $5,000 in Angolan currency.

“Just shock and disbelief,” Bret said.

Angolan police believe Shroyer’s wife, Jackie Shroyer, was the mastermind behind the plot because they suspect she was having an affair with the security guard and did not want to leave the country when her husband’s mission trip came to an end. .

They say she offered to pay the men $50,000 for her husband’s murder and is also in custody.

“We’re not going to blame anyone until there’s proof, but we’re not going to get any information. We don’t know which way up is. There’s no way to know what’s going on,” Bret said.

Shroyer’s relatives want to bring his body back to Minnesota so he can rest while they wait for definitive answers about why it was taken from him so soon.

“We want to know that there is justice here for Beau because he is the victim in all of this and we are suffering because of it,” Bret said.

Bret says Beau’s mother-in-law is in Angola taking care of the couple’s five children.

A GoFundMe has been created to help bring Beau’s body home and pay for his funeral. If you want to help click here.