Two more shooting victims succumbed to injuries

In the other two cases, two more Belizeans succumbed to gunshot wounds. Around four-thirty Monday evening, after ten days in a coma at the K.H.M.H., eighteen year old Cameron Blease died while receiving treatment for gunshot wounds he received after a crossfire outside the Princess Hotel on the night of December twenty-sixth, 2008. The culprit; a minor. The incident occurred in the early hours of Boxing Day when a fifteen year old, known for breaking the law opened fire on Blease and his twenty-nine year old friend, Jermaine Trapp. Trapp died on the spot and Blease was transported to the K.H.M.H. where he died. On February eleventh, instead of facing one count of Murder, an Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm, the minor will now answer to two counts of Murder along with other charges.

And twenty-year old Barney Cunningham Junior, who was also clinging to life after a shooting incident last week Friday, died early this morning while receiving treatment at the Belize Medical Associates. Cunningham was one of four men who were shot senselessly after a shootout which occurred on Curl Thompson Street in the Port Loyola Area. The motive is still unknown and all three other men; Enrique Alvarez, Glenford Myvett and Edmond Castillo who also received gunshot wounds have since been treated and released from the K.H.M.H.