City youth murdered Friday night

The long holiday weekend was not without its share of deadly violence. The first murder occurred around nine Friday night in Belize City.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting

Twenty-seven year old Mark Anthony Tingling was standing in this yard on Neal’s Penn Road with a group of young men when he was fatally shot in his upper left chest by a lone gunman.

Police and the Tingling family strongly believe the murder is the result of an argument that erupted following a card game on Saturday evening.

Therese Tingling, Mother of Deceased

“The young man they tell me that one ah the bally hail ah. But when they hail ah, like somebody else mi deh dah back di wait pan ah and dah right there he got shot. And he came out holding his heart and tell J.C., the bally weh he mi di argue with shot me.”

While police have yet to determine the motive of the murder, Tingling believes her son never suspected someone wanted to hurt him.

Therese Tingling

“With this thing weh gone on, he never come home and seh them bwai the threaten ah, because I feel like when something like that happen he noh come home come tell me because I like rail up (scold). But they big, so I can’t do nothing about that. I noh know everything, so I can’t say what di go on.”

Police have since arrested twenty-three-year old Richard White and charged him with murder.