Man Shot By Police In Belize City

A police officer allegedly shot a Belize City man with a shotgun while on duty. Romey Herrera, the Aunt of Kenyon Plunkett, told News Five that her nephew is hospitalized after being shot by a police officer on Chetumal Boulevard in Belize City. She says, Plunkett informed her that he was on a motorcycle with another individual when a police mobile approached them and demanded that they stop and pull over. Plunkett alleges that before they were given the opportunity to come to a complete stop they heard a loud bang coming from the police mobile. Plunkett then realized that he was shot to the arm. We spoke with Herrera outside the K.H.M.H. before police issued a report stating that officers were in a mobile chasing a man identified as Victor Lopez, who was driving a motorcycle. Police confirmed that Plunkett was along with Lopez. They say that during the chase, one of the officers observed Plunkett pulling an object from his waist. As a result, the officer fired a single gunshot with his issued shotgun at the individuals on the cycle, which caused injuries to Plunkett. Here is what Plunkett’s aunt told us.

Romey Herrera

Romey Herrera, Aunt of Shooting Victim

“My brother was P’s father and he was killed some twelve years ago. We still don’t get any justice. I don’t want this to go like that. So I decide to come to the hospital to ask my nephew what happened because there are three sides to the story, his side, the police side and my nephew side and the truth. If anybody want talk they could say deh sih P every morning and evening at the foot of Haulover Bridge the ketch fish. That is what he does for his hustling, he sell fish to different restaurants. So he ask a young man that is his friend to give him a ride to Belama to collect a money. He say, aunty when we the come around Westrac police start to chase the young man on the cycle and deh she fih stop but by this time we done the go around the roundabout so we couldn’t stop right away. By the time we the go around the round about the just feel the police shot him from the back with a shotgun, not even a regular gun a shot gun, dah like deh the shot him to kill him. They shot him from behind. He didn’t have anything on him other than his phone. My nephew hand is broken in so many places. He is losing a lot of blood. Right now I come see him dah Karl Heusner and the whole bed full a blood where he rest and ih band up with a lot of bandage and the blood still the drain and they can’t do the surgery yet because of the wellness. I don’t even know if my nephew could use that hand again with the extent of how they shot my nephew. We want justice and I am not even calling on Chester because every time he fail. So, I the call pan Kareem Musa, please do a thorough investigation because I don’t think this should go like that. He is an honest worker. He hustle, he sell ih fish, go out deh.”