2 men injured in separate shooting incidents…

Yet another Belize City resident is hospitalized due to gunshot wounds. According to twenty-one year old Clifton Flores, on Saturday afternoon he was riding his bike on West Canal, heading to South Street when another man on a bicycle fired several shots at him. Flores was hit in the right shoulder, elbow, leg and knee. Flores is admitted to the K.H.M.H. in stable condition, while police are investigating.

And Belize City wasn’t the only municipality were bullets were flying. In the process of tracking down the culprits responsible for burglarizing his house, a Hope Creek resident was grazed to the lower back. On Friday, forty-three year old Norman Kerr reported to police that between seven and ten that morning his home was broken into and a television was stolen. Kerr and several other villagers formed a search party and began their own investigation of the incident. Kerr’s team spotted two young men who fled into the nearby bush and one fired a shot at Kerr. The hunt was not fruitless as Kerr did manage to capture seventeen year old Joseph Palacio, a resident of Antelope Street Extension in Belize City. Palacio was escorted to the Dangriga station pending investigation and police are looking for the other suspect.