Brandon Tillett and minor charged for shooting on King Street

Brandon Tillett

On the morning of April eighth, in broad daylight, two men, identified as Lyndon Jefferies and Ernesto Perez were sitting in an Altima car on King Street when a gunman opened fire in their direction, missing both men. Two arrests have been made so far. The most recent occurred late Wednesday evening when police escorted, Brandon Tillett, aka “BET”, to the Magistrate’s Court where he was slapped with two counts of aggravated assault upon Perez and Jefferies. Tillett pleaded not guilty to the two charges of aggravated assault. He joins a fifteen year-old minor who was arraigned last week for the same charges and remanded to the Belize Youth Hostel. The minor’s mother told the court, that his son was being mistaken for his older brother who was arrested last Friday by the police. Both Tillett and the minor are due back before the court on May seventeenth. Tillett has a number of charges before the court and recently walked from a murder charge in the Supreme Court.