… And in Belize City, Kevin Hendy is gunned down

And the third murder victim is a thirty-five year old man who was gunned down on Central American Boulevard at about seven p.m. Monday night. After playing a card game, Kevin Hendy, a resident of Central American Boulevard, stepped up to a black car and according to residents a large volume of shots were heard spraying into the night. A single gunshot to the left side of the face killed Kevin Hendy. He fell on the sidewalk with his head split open from the wound. The gunmen drove off and escaped.

Hendy has had a string of incidents with the law. A relative says that there have been at least six attempts on his life. One of the recent attempts occurred on Sunday, September twenty-third, 2007. Hendy was in the company of Curlin “Cluck Cluck” Felix under a bus stop on Central American Boulevard when a lone gunman approached them and opened fire. While the men ran, Felix fell in the drain and was shot five times and one bullet caught Hendy in his leg. In that case, eighteen year old Cassian Bennett of Faber’s Road had been charged for the murder of Curlin Felix and was also charged with attempted murder, grievous harm, use of deadly means of harm upon Kevin Hendy. But that was not the last of Hendy in the news. On October third, 2007 Hendy was accused of threatening twenty-five year old Austin Stevens of Jane Usher Boulevard. Hendy and Keith Middleton allegedly pulled a weapon on Stevens and threatened to kill him for being an informer and a snitch. Hendy witnessed Felix’s death and that may be a motive for his death. Lloyd Carr, who was sitting and playing a card game with Hendy, remembered him as a boy.

Lloyd Percival Carr, Witness
“They always be around here from they are small I know all of them. Cuz I seventy-five. We dah deh out here, play we lee game together and di heng round here. I don’t know about noh kind of trouble. Three of us were out here playing Black Stick. Me and Hendy and the next guy and somebody hail him there. Who was the person we don’t really know, right. He left the table and went there. We were waiting for him to come back. Then we hear the bullet. We hear the shooting so we dash in there; dash in the yard.”

Jacqueline Woods
“How many shots were fired?”

Lloyd Percival Carr
“I heard about three, four. They went dahdahdahdahdam. Like that. Bout three to four. Well me and di next gial run to the gate and I stand up outside di look. I noh si nothing.”

Jose Sanchez
“After the bullets were fired did someone come to help him?”

Lloyd Percival Carr
“After he get shot I see a crowd went there. A crowd went there but I didn’t go because I’m kind of dim sighted too right. So I didn’t go there. I just hear them say the man dead.”

Inspector Sinquest Martinez
“We have recovered some expended shells; nine millimetres expended shells and this morning we continue to process the scene when we found some other items that weren’t seen last night at the crime scene. So we went back there this morning and finished processing the crime scene.”

Jose Sanchez
“Okay, but you can’t say what that is?”

Insp. Sinquest Martinez
“There were some gun pellets from the gun in some of the walls of the building. We have one person detained at this moment and we’re looking to two other persons who could assist us in this investigation because of previous misunderstanding they had. So we are looking at that, we are looking at the other misunderstanding, and like you mentioned, pertaining to Curlin Felix, we are looking at that likewise.”