Another Murder Recorded: Paul Bood Succumbs
A shooting incident in a relatively quiet neighbourhood off Fabers Road in Belize City has claimed the life of another teen. Contrary to reports from the police, nineteen-year-old Paul Bood was clinging to life at the K.H.M.H. since Saturday evening, and this morning, he succumbed to gunshot injuries to the head and upper body. Today, News Five spoke with his girlfriend, Sade Singh with whom he shares a one-year-old baby girl. She recounts the harrowing ordeal as it played out on Saturday evening.
Sade Singh, Girlfriend of Deceased
“I just move from the door and watch he. He was on the step, sir. He was conversating with my cousin. He just come from back of the yard – ih plant pepper, ih plant pineapple, ih plant dehn thing deh sir. Ih just come from back there and sit down on the step. And I just walk inside because my daddy mi deh downstairs with dehn. By the time I turn around because the baby di bawl, ih deh behind me, and by the time I bend down to pick up she, I hear the first two and I say dah weh that. Paul mi wah tell me if he got pop shot. And when the rest start ring off sir, I run dah the window and I bawl out fi ahn and when I run dah di door and see ahn slouched over sir, I think ih dead. I think ih dead and I run downstairs and bawl fi my mommy. Paul neva deserve the way he died. The night, the Friday, I was washing sir and my baby tell me, he deh downstairs with me and he say babe if dehn come fi hurt me, I wah run. He mi di try run, he mi di try run and dehn chance ahn sir, dehn chance ahn. Four shots ih end up get. We mi think dah only two when dah four sir, four. And ih mi punish, ih mi di fight, ih mi di fight. But God make it that way deh and dah just like how I feel fi Dwayne mommy, I feel fi Mister Henry because Mister Henry dah di same age ah Paul and two ah dehn have wah daughter sir. Why dehn noh stop it. Please unu just stop it Belize, please?”