Rudolph Welcome Charged with Attempted Murder of Eugene Henderson Jr.

Rudolph Welcome

Eighteen-year-old Rudolph Welcome has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for the near-fatal shooting of Eugene Henderson Junior over the weekend.  On Saturday night, the twenty-three-year-old Burrell Boom resident was shot to the right side of the face whilst sleeping on a sofa at a relative’s house in Roaring Creek.  It is alleged that Welcome fired a single blast from a shotgun, seriously injuring Henderson who was visiting for a memorial service held in honor of a missing cousin.  While Welcome’s family vehemently denies the allegation made against him, a charge of attempted murder has since been preferred, before he was taken to the magistrate’s court earlier today.