Call Center Employee Shot by Police Officer

On Thursday night, a single shot rang out on Euphrates Avenue in Belize City. When the echo of the gunshot subsided, twenty-two-year-old Rondane Swaso, a call center employee, had been shot once to the chest. Police were on the scene within minutes and an injured Swaso was retrieved from an overgrown property, placed in the pan of a police pickup truck and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he remains in a critical, but stable condition. News Five caught up with Swaso’s girlfriend outside of the K.H.M.H. compound.  She says that she was at home when she heard the shot and ran out to find that her boyfriend had been injured by a police officer.  

Voice of: Girlfriend of Shooting Victim

“Like literally five minutes he left from home and I heard one gunshot. So the neighbour, everybody start run out. Kids were in the playground, dehn di bawl up, traumatised. I neva expect that fi happen to he. So my neighbourtell me Rondane get shot. When I run out there dah cause dehn done ker ih body behind the truck. So wah lady, wah nice lady come and say sweetie, you know dehn lef yo boyfriend body down yah. Yo know if I neva goen and see if this bwai the breathe, dehn mi wah lef ahn right deh make it dead. And I said serious? She said yes. And she traumatised. So when she halla fi one of the police, the police come and check ahn and see ih di breathe and so dehn dash ahn ina di pickuop truck like ih done dead.”

Duane Moody

“Where was he? Where was he going?”

Voice of: Girlfriend of Shooting Victim

“When he come from work, he always go and buy right dah di lee burritos lady.”