5 wounded in city drive-by shooting
The only good thing that can be said about this next story is that it could have been worse…much worse. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports on a drive-by shooting in Belize City with enough wounded victims to fill an emergency ward.
Patrick Jones, Reporting
The bullet marks on the front window of this shop on Kraal Road tell only part of the story of a neighbourhood that came under a serious assault over the weekend. On Saturday evening five people, including a nine year old child were injured by flying bullets as a car drove up and someone started shooting. Delroy Barrow was shot several times as he walked on Kraal Road.
Delroy Barrow, Shooting Victim
?I just see wah ride haul up and started to fire shots and I get out of the way, boss.?
Patrick Jones
?Now you say you got out of the way, but you still got injured, how many shots did you get??
Delroy Barrow
?Four.?
One to each of his calves, shoulder and buttocks. Phillip Gonzalez says he was going about his own business when he was taken down.
Phillip Gonzalez, Shooting Victim
?I just get paid from my boss in the evening, so I have some laundry to do. So I say make I go and buy a soap powder. So I the come through the alley, as I reach in front of the Chiney my back turn, check, and I am not paying mind to nothing what is happening, so I order my thing, then wah vehicle stop and just start to buss shot, but I noh the pay that no mind neither, I think dah dem kids from around there the play with dynamite. Dah when I feel something hit me you check, then I conscious dah gunshot, then I drop.?
When he fell it was onto a broken beer bottle, injuring him in the upper right side of his back. Gonzalez says he managed to crawl away from the site to avoid further injury. Both he and Barrow say because they were busy running for cover, they did not see who the shooter was.
Phillip Gonzalez
?When I drop, and when I look so, I see wah green car, tinted. But when I look, the person shove open the door and dah right from out the door them the let go shot. But I never get fuh see no face or anything cause I the try get out of the ay before I get hit more bad or somewhere because I done hit ina mi foot, check.?
Patrick Jones, for News 5.
The other victims of Saturday evening’s shooting are twenty-one year old Rudolph Kelly and twenty-eight year old Curtis Lewis. Police says they recovered the car abandoned on Custard Apple Street, but the occupants were nowhere to be found. Anyone with information that may help police to solve this crime is asked to contact the nearest Police Station or Crime Stoppers at 922.
