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. He later remarried. ==Death==