Steven Moss Gunned Down in Belize City
Steven Moss
Four Belize City residents have been murdered in the last nine days. The latest victim to lose his life is twenty-nine-year-old Steven Moss, a resident of Queen Charlotte Street. If the name sounds familiar that is because Moss was charged in connection with a murder in 2017, in front of what is now Club Bizzo. But, only two days after the murder trial began in 2020 the case was dismissed and Moss was once again a free man. This afternoon, he was the target of a gunman inside a vehicle. Moss was only two houses away from where he lived when he was shot and killed this afternoon. News Five’s Paul Lopez arrived on the scene shortly after. He filed the following report.
Paul Lopez, Reporting
Twenty-nine-year-old, Steven Moss, a resident of Queen Charlotte Street, lay lifeless on the side of the street across from Club Bizzo. Moss was on a bicycle heading home with an order of panades that he purchased from a nearby vendor when a vehicle approached him. Reports are that his killer opened fire in his direction from inside the vehicle and then fled the scene. Moss was killed only a stone’s throw away from his home.
Voice of: Caesar Ridge Road Resident
“I mih just come from outta town like weh I tell you. I gawn buy bread cross deh fih try help one of my friend with a wheel chair and when I come back I bring my cousin bike. I bring fih he bike and I tell ah cuz, I tek a lee bit long. By the time I walk dah back by my breda house fih hail my breda and talk and tell ah weh I the deal with, right after that we hear like two or three shots. We never mih think that dah shot cause sometime you hear like thing the buzz, pop shot or so. So I tell ah, that sound like shot. So after that I hear so much more after that. I tell ah that dah shot, somebody must get shot out deh. We run out yah through the alley way to the front yah and when we come out yah we see the young bway down deh.”
Steven Moss
Moss is known to the law. He was charged for the October 2017 murder of Delbert Daniel Anderson. His trial began on July sixth 2020. Two days later, the case was dismissed and Moss was set free. Ironically, Moss was gunned down in front the same club that Anderson met his demise.
Voice of: Caesar Ridge Road Resident
“We know ah from we young. We dah pickni, all ah we grow up round yah so. We know one another. I hear deh seh ih mih deh dah the gacho shop, the pink cacho shop. The food still the down deh eena the bag right now. So from the gacho shop ih the come from and ih look like the people deh mih the dodge ah or something and dah suh deh ketch ah.”
Moss’s mother and siblings arrived on the scene shortly after he was gunned down. They and others on the scene, expressed anger at the police for taking too long to remove the body. Almost an hour later, Moss’ lifeless body was placed in the back of a police pickup truck and carted off.
Voice of: Caesar Ridge Road Resident
“Ih just mek we feel like ih nuh wah done, because this dah the way how ih the guh, dah beef on and on, lone brothers weh the kill out one another, brothers, cause deh dah nuh strangers, deh know one another. The one weh come from out deh come kill deh, cause deh got beef with next people and thing. So, dah the only way I could say how I feel about it yo know.”
Reporting for News Five, I am Paul Lopez.
