Adult and two minors shot in Rowland’s Alley

The quiet of Sunday evening was broken when two minors and an adult were shot at Rowland’s Alley, not far from downtown Belize City, when they stopped at a friend’s house for water. At about six-thirty p.m., eighteen year old Brandon Middleton was shot twice and received two injuries to his right thigh, three to his right leg and five wounds to his left leg. A fourteen year old minor accompanying Middleton was also shot on his right thigh and received two wounds to his left foot while a third person, another minor, was shot once to his right leg and once to his left foot. The incident occurred a few feet away from where Sherlett Arnold, the chief witness in a murder trial last week was shot last week Monday. Arnold never made it to the murder stand and the other witness in that case had selective amnesia. While no one would speak in that case, the mother of one of Sunday night’s shooting victim and her son, gave News Five Jose Sanchez an off camera interview about the incident. The woman said they don’t live in the area.

Doris Sanchez, Mother of Shooting Victim
“Well, I just come check through di alley and thing because yo know weh happen last night because like round after six, six-thirty so, I received a call concerning dat mi lee boy just get shot through wah alley but I neva know da which alley, yo know and I di come through today coh coh see because ih run left ih bike and thing. Ih receive four shots, ih get one enna ih hip and three enna ih leg, yo know. So I just come see yo know and what da di problem and what da di reason why dehn had to shot ah yo know because whatever problems dehn had dehn cudda mih solve it enna other kinda way, nuh with weapon and dehn thing. So dat da all I wah seh and I really da wah know di person weh do it, yo understand, he as a man, if he seh he da wah man he cudda mih solve fi he problems easier dan dat dan fi use weapon, yo understand pan wah fourteen year old lee bwai and concerning di other pickney dehn too cuz three more young man get shot. So dats dah all I want know. While dehn mi di stand up deh so di person come through di alley with a camouflage. Well dat da weh dehn police really have to do, try take dehn camouflage off di streets because dehn seh dehn mi think dah police because he had on full camouflage clothes. Dehn seh when ih reach by di alley way, all dehn see, by di time dehn turn round ih done haul on wah mask, and haul out di gun, and den he just start to fire shot. He seh he try ride fi he bike but den he drop off ah di bike because he conscious his feet get weak, yo know. He dropped off di bike dah so he end up di run.”

Shooting Victim
“I just mi di come from the ball court and I stop by one of my friend house because we mi tired and thing. We stop and ask fi wah lee bit ah water. We mi di run joke and talk a lee bit. I just see wah man come through di alley, but he stop and he just lift up a long gun and he just bust wah shot. When he bust di shot I just run and I feel something enna di bottom of my foot ya. I feel like I get shot. I no mi di bother about dat. When I reach by the lane I ketch a cramp enna my right leg. I drop and when I lift up my pants I see my foot di bleed. So I get a next shot in my foot ya. Dehn call wah taxi for me and I just mek I jump enna di taxi and dehn drop me to hospital.”

Jose Sanchez
“You are aware that last week a woman who was supposed to be the witness in a case was shot right on her step, which is more or less the same area where they said your son was shot. Do you think your son was in the wrong spot at the wrong time?”

Doris Sanchez
“Well, I believe dat happen fi true because if somebody through yah mi supposed to testify fi something, end up getting shot last week. Well, I suggest dat da mussi di problem mussi di come back fi try do something else bout it. And when dehn come and just see somebody through di alley way well dehn suggest dat whosoever deh through di alley way, make dehn feel and as you say fi true, he mi deh in di wrong place at di wrong time. And den ih sad fi know because den if yoh can’t go somewhere without look out for yourself ih really di get hard enna di streets”

Jose Sanchez
“what about your recovery, what did the doctor say about your wounds?”

Shooting victim
“He no say da nothing bad but du bullet enna my left foot, he no take it out, only di one in mi right leg, dehn take it out.”

Jose Sanchez
“But he said you are going to have a good recovery?”

Shooting Victim
Yes sir.”

Brandon Middleton is still recovering at the K.H.M.H. Doris Sanchez said that the doctor told her that her son should be ready to go back to school in a few weeks.