Keron Card shot 5 times and lives to tell the tale

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There was other violence over the weekend. Even before the Stuart and Gillette Murders, a shooting occurred at six-thirty p.m. on Friday. The victim was hit by a volley of fire by a gunman who rode towards him on bicycle. Luckily for him, the bullet caught his legs, arms and side. Leroy Card told News’ Five Jose Sanchez that he expects to fully recover and is not contemplating retaliation.

Jose Sanchez, Reporting

Today, blood stains still lie on the ground on St. Jude Street where twenty-three year old Leroy Card was shot five times on Friday evening.  It happened about a hundred feet from his home and while his family heard the shots, they had no idea he was the victim.

Dorla Williams, Aunt of Keron Card

“While we deh home, we get bang.  Everybody say run. I couldn’t run, my daughter hold my hand and seh come in ma come in cause you wah get hurt,  they are shooting out there. Ih mi sound very, very close, when we hear again bang, bang, bang. Ih done shoot ahn bang the first time and ih drop pan di ground. Weh ih coudla mi do. Ih mean fi shoot ahn dead. Eh give ah five shoots.”

Luckily no vital organs were hit and Card survived.  He was able to speak about the traumatic experience from a hospital wheel chair.

Voice of:  Leroy Card, Shot Five Times

“I gone back to the river gone hail 2 friends. Then we di come from back ah di river then when we reach on St. Jude Street, I see them run back towards the river. They didn’t tell me gun man di come so I continue ride on my cousin bike. I see balli in a red shirt and black di ride come towards me, so I stop fi look see dah who. Then when I stop and then eh ride up into me then he just start open fire. The first shot in my left side, then in my leg, after I drop over the bike, come over me and bus mo’ shot, and dah so I get shot ina my hand, fracture my big thumb bone, behind my calf, over my right ankle and in my right leg.”

Jose Sanchez

“Keron your aunt says you’re truly someone that don’t give any trouble.”

Voice of:  Leroy Card

“I go from Caye everyday and then from Caye to home and then I noh go nowhere else. Sometime I go hail my ma and go right back home and that’s it right deh.”

Dorla Williams

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“My nephew dah somebody weh no fass with people. He go anywhere, he noh deh ina no gang bang timing and deh thing deh.  He noh deal with deh thing deh. You could tell he go yah, he gwen deh. And that young man know dah the wrong person weh ih want. Because after the shooting done that dah mistake identity he shoot my nephew.”

Card, who can identify the face of his shooter, is not looking for street justice.

Voice of:  Leroy Card

“This morning police come and show me a picture and ask me if that is the person. I told them “No, dah wah different person. So they seh they will release that person weh deh got hold.”

Jose Sanchez

“Did the doctors say how long before you fully recover?”

Voice of:  Leroy Card

“No, Nothing.”

Jose Sanchez

“So at this point you can’t go to sea to fish?”

Voice of:  Leroy Card

“No. I just have to wait cause mi knee still hurt and mi leg still hurt me and mi side yah still hurt me and thing cause di bullet on the side didn’t’ burst through and di bullet back ah mi foot neva pus through either, but the the next three burst through though.”

Jose Sanchez

“My impression is that you are not one to retaliate. Is that right?”

Voice of:  Leroy Card

“Yes sir.”

Reporting for News Five, Jose Sanchez.