Man charged in Cayo shooting
Police in San Ignacio have charged twenty-seven year old Santa Elena resident Henry Baptist in connection with a double shooting on Sunday morning. Authorities say nineteen year old Kevin Diaz and twenty four year old Victor Olivera were walking on Orange Street in Santa Elena Town around two thirty Sunday morning when they were shot by Baptist. He appeared in San Ignacio magistrate’s court today, charged with two counts each of attempted murder, the use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm. Because the crime was committed with a gun, Baptist could not receive bail and was remanded to Hattieville Prison until December sixteenth. Diaz and Olivera remain hospitalized in Belmopan.
