Taxi man robbed and shot by passenger

A Belize City cab driver was shot in the early hours of Sunday morning by a passenger in his own car. At about twelve-forty a.m., forty-eight year old Clive Smith was driving on Albert Street, when he was approached by a young man who asked him to be taken to Tigris Street. Upon reaching at the corner of Basra and Tigris Streets the man paid Smith the cost of the fare. And while the vehicle was still parked, another man came out of a yard with what appeared to be a home made shot gun and fired a single shot which caught the door of Smith’s red 1994 Lincoln Continental Car. The passenger also took out a point thirty-eight revolver and fired three shots at Smith, after which the car crashed into a zinc fence. One of the bullets penetrated the windshield and another went through the door on the driver’s side. Smith received two gunshot wounds, one bullet penetrated his right upper arm and the other entered his back and exited his left arm. The men then proceeded to search and rob Smith. He has since been admitted to ward in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. Though their investigations continue, the police have not yet determined what was stolen.