Two shot dead; one may have been bystander
Long holiday weekends in Belize are no strangers to deadly violence and the one we just experienced was no exception. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on a double homicide in Belize City that police are still trying to sort out.
G. Michael Reid, Police Press Officer
?There is concern; in particular it seems that people are again going to firearms. For a while it seems like they were resorting to knives and stabbings and what not or choppings and now it seems there is a return to the ways of firearms. This is indeed is very concerning because there is a case of people, innocent people getting hurt. These bullets don?t have names on them.?
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
Police are not sure whether forty-nine year old Clive Flowers was the intended target or an innocent bystander witness when he was shot and killed early Sunday morning. Reports are that Flowers was along with twenty-four year old Nehru Smith and twenty-five year old Dennis Belgrave near George and Church streets when a lone gunman rode up on a bicycle and started shooting at the three men. Smith and Flowers were killed and Belgrave managed to escape with only a gunshot wound to his left calf. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid says authorities are investigating reports that Smith, who is no stranger to the police, was the intended victim.
G. Michael Reid
?We have heard that that indeed Mister Smith was the person they were after and that in fact not even that Mister Flowers saw anything but that he was in harms way, being at the wrong place at the wrong time. But again that right now is being investigated, we do not know, you know until we can really come to the bottom of things, we are not at liberty to say that this happen or that happen. In fact we are asking anyone with information to please help.?
Police say at this time they do not know what led to the shooting. Jacqueline Woods for News Five.
If you have any information that can help the police in their investigation, please call the Crimestoppers hotline at 922.
