Mayflower Resident Charged for Shooting of Jervis Diamond Valencia

Hilberto Romero

Police have made progress in a shooting that took place in Belize City.  On Monday evening, Jervis Valencia was shot several times while sitting in a yard in an alley on the Mayflower area. Police arrested and charged one man in connection with the shooting. The cops say that the attack resulted from internal gang warfare.

Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch

“Reference the shooting of Jervis Diamond that occurred on Tuesday, we have since arrested and charged twenty-one-year-old Kareem Kelly of Mayflower for the crimes of dangerous harm, attempt murder and deadly use of harm in reference to the shooting that happened in Mayflower area that is as a result of internal fighting within that group of persons in that area.”