Youth killed on way to shop

In another incident, also in Belize City, on Sunday a youth was killed around eight p.m. as he headed to a neighbourhood shop. News 5 spoke with his mother today.

Irene Wallace, Mother of Deceased

“It was pretty close range, pretty close range cause like nobody expect that.”

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting

Irene Wallace remains in shock over the brutal killing of her nineteen year old son Charles Wallace. Wallace had just left his house on Reggae Street to go to the shop, but he only got about one hundred yards when a young man rode up on a bicycle and shot him in his head.

Irene Wallace

“Well we hear a thing gone off and we thought it was dynamite, right? Until my other son came and he holla and told his step-father to get the van ready to take Charles to the hospital because he get shot. And then like everybody was so surprised and thing like that, right? Then everybody just run outside–well I couldn?t run cause I mi inna wah bad state right. Then all the neighbours come cross and everything and then like I call the police also, and then the ambulance and everything came and then they took him to the hospital. And it was here well they tell me that well he done dead already cause he get shot in the head.”

The bullet caught Wallace in his right temple and he died on the way over to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.

Irene Wallace

“I noh know anything about he having anything with anybody. And he was supposed to start working today. And when he noh di do nothing he always at home taking care of the children because I have to work in the morning and in the night and he always try cook the food, ker them dah school, pick them up from school and stuff like that. So I noh know why they just shot ah like that.”

It?s not the first time the Wallace family has had to deal with the murder of a loved one. Wallace says several years ago her brother Amos Bonillo was shot and killed inside the house.

Irene Wallace

“That happen in 1996, the fifteenth of July 1996 when they kill my brother right home here and this time its not to far away they kill my son, so like it?s very hard, right?”

Equally disturbing, is that Wallace?s young daughter was threatened this morning, possibly by the same man who killed her son.

Irene Wallace

“The description that they give me, it fit certain people and then this morning I send my daughter gone buy phone card, so that I could a mi do a phone call. She come back and she was crying right and she told me that a guy I won?t call his name rode up pan a bicycle and told her that she would be next. And from the information from the description people di give we with the clothes and everything the person had on we more or less know da who, but we won?t speculate until the police come up with different things.”

Both the family and the authorities say they do not know the motive for the killing and are appealing to anyone who can help them solve this murder to please call the hotline number 922.

Irene Wallace

“I want to make that appeal because you hear a lot of rumours bout different things weh happen and more or less we figure dah who do it, but we just di wait for different time. And I just want tell that person that shot my son that I guess his mother wah grieve more than how I ever grieve right and ih wah be a matter of time before things wah happen to he because he wah get what he deserve.”

Reporting for News 5, Jacqueline Woods.

Police say they do not believe the two weekend murders are linked, but are not ruling out any possibilities at this time.