Police shoot suspect, seek two more

Law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital are tonight on a manhunt for two “bad men” while one of their accomplices recuperates in the hospital from gunshot wounds. According to Belmopan police, during their investigation of a series of robberies in several villages along the Western Highway and Belmopan, they found themselves at a home in Roaring Creek Village around nine-thirty Tuesday night. The officers say when they approached the house they saw three men, one of whom was armed with a sawed off shotgun. While the gunman high-tailed it through a back door, the other two decided to face off with the cops. Police managed to detain one of them quickly but his partner, brandishing a knife, did not want to make nice. The cops say they fired a warning shot and when the man did not stop, they shot him in the left leg. During that scuffle, the other man decided it was his turn to fight with the officers and focussed his attention on a pregnant WPC. In the end, he got away. The injured man was taken to the Belmopan hospital and later transferred to the K.H.M.H. where he is listed in a stable condition. He has been identified as twenty-one year old Matthew Gentle, wanted by not only the police in connection with several burglary and robbery cases, but also by the B.D.F. for desertion. As soon as Gentle is healthy enough to stand before a Magistrate one of the charges to be levied against him will be the assault of a police officer.