Another Felix brother gunned down
The entire country was plunged into darkness Thursday night shortly after six-thirty. About an hour and a half after power was restored two gunmen wasted no time in seeking out another of the remaining three Felix brothers. Twenty-five year old Ryan Bennett, also known as Ryan Felix, lays in stable condition tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a near fatal shooting incident a stone’s throw away from the family home on Gill Street. Bennett, who is the son of late community activist Therese Felix, was the victim of a drive-by shooting in the Port Loyola area. Bennett was standing on Fabers Road near a Chinese shop in front of Excelsior High school when two assailants drove up to him on motorcycle and let loose a barrage of bullets in his direction. According to one relative Cash, as Bennett is popularly known, would have been dead had he not fell into a nearby drain during the shooting.
Voice of Jason Bennett’s Relative
ryan bennett
“Eyewitness seh dat when Ryan mi di ride come home and he pass di bump front ah excelsior, two bwai pass pan motorcycle wid helmet on and just start to fire shots. And at dah time deh he drop inna drain. So I guess sake ah weh he mi drop inna drain, people mi get di impression dah he mi dead.”
Isani Cayetano
“Do you know how many shots he got?”
Voice of Jason Bennett’s Relative
“Ih get one shot weh penetrate through ih hand, through ih chest, bust out ah ih chest, eena ih right hand and bust out ah ih right hand too.”
Isani Cayetano
This morning, there was a request for blood donorship to him. Do you know how he stands now or where he stands with that?”
Voice of Jason Bennett’s Relative
“Well, ih okay. Dehn just mi want give a blood because ih lose wah lot ah blood last night. But dah just one shot, nothing major or fatal or anything like dat.”
Isani Cayetano
“By any chance would you happen to know why someone would want him shot?”
Voice of Jason Bennett’s Relative
“I noh know. Why. Lot ha innocent people di get shot nowadays so yoh really can’t seh or comment pan something like dat fi why somebody want kill yoh family memba and thing like dat or why dehn want kill yoh friend. Dehn just di shoot fi shoot, kill fi kill fi petty things. Petty things people di get dead out yah fah. So we noh really got wah straight up ansa fi dat.”
When are we going to stop describing murder & attempted murder with the same passion we use when ordering fried chicken.
Of course they know what happened, when & where but no one ever knows who or why. It’s time for these kids to take off the Tshirts honoring fallen soldiers at funerals & parents need to demand that we keep funerals sacred & bury their children with the dignity they deserve instead of the gang rituals that their peers now use to honor them. Death is final.
i’m not condoning violence, but the world is round….wen i was young, one day i was walking on Fabers road in front of excelsior high school, this guy punch me in d face because i was wearing a blue pants, i was like 8 years old n couldn’t defend my self, now look…some one is out to kill him. So sad…
Double standard at its best BZNinCALIE was like go girl do u women power burn that man now u appalled by killing of bzean men funny wrong is wrong both crimes Belizeans you all got to do better. .blop blop to all positive harmonyville (-:
KARMA. is REAL…………….. WHAT GOES AROUND ……………… COMES AROUND!!!! Be MINDFUL of what you send around. IF YOU Send LOVE…… You can’t loose.
I applaud the organizers and members of the Belizeans for Justice Organization. I am a Belizean living in the United States and I love my country. I remember when I was proud to say I am from Belize when asked that question. Reading the Belize news to me is sad because it is simply the daily statistics on deaths caused by killings in this small nation. Our leaders need to seriosly look at this problem and address it vigilantly. Our Tourism Industry will be greatly affected if something is not done soon. The legal system is failing horribly. Too much corruption in the higher ranks of Government Officials. I love comming home, but recently I fear going home especially Belize City.
Hans, Lavern did not shoot a stranger in the streets, she was being abused & probably had nowhere to go. If that was what it took to make him stop, I still say GO GIRL. How many of these gang members with no conscience were “raised” in a home with abusive men. I will repeat a quote I heard years ago that every man should live by: “The greatest gift a man can give his children is to love their mother”. The confidence & ability to love it instills in his children makes better human beings.
I will never accept that murder is the only solution for every slight..
Watching young men walk in a funeral procession drinking alcohol, sitting on a grave smoking weed during the graveside service & the ritual of throwing handfuls of ashes on the grave turned into tossing weed & sweaty bandannas is sickening. Being told by the older folks that this is “normal, dah soh dey lee bwai behave” & to say nothing or risk being beaten or shot is ridiculous. Young men posing in gang attire flashing gang signs is not bonding. Soldiers fight for what they believe is the greater good, these kids are just terrorizing our streets, they’re not martyrs.
Double standard? Absolutely!!!
Are you seriously transcribing his conversation in broken english? It’s understandable if he speaks in ebonics, but you just made up a language and published it in an article. That’s SO unprofessional