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Sep 24, 2009

Three men charged for attempted murder in separate incidents

Story PictureAlso in the courts, three men, including a Guatemalan presently residing in Belize City, were charged with Attempted Murder in separate incidents. The most recent incident occurred on Saturday night, September nineteenth during an altercation on North Front Street near the swing bridge. Clive Hyde, a resident of the area, claims he was on North Front Street when he got into a fight with Manuel De Jesus Lopez Gomez, a Guatemalan national who pulled out a knife and stabbed him once in the stomach. This morning, the twenty-two year old Gomez appeared in front of Senior Magistrate, Dorothy Flowers, where he was slapped with one count of Attempted Murder and other charges.

The second incident is believed to be the result of a shooting around ten on Saturday on Mayflower Street and which left a sixteen year old hospitalized. The youth, San Jay Lino was shot once in the back. Lino, a student of Ebony Street, told police that he was walking on Mayflower Street when two armed gunmen on bicycles opened fire on him. Police have made only one arrest, eighteen year old Jeon Peebles of Mopan Street. Peebles was also charged with Attempted Murder. Police believe that the shooting was gang-related.

The third charge was in connection with a shooting on August twenty-third at the corner of Kraal and Neal’s Pen Road which left forty-six year old Lindon Jeffery injured. Jeffery told police that around nine that night he was riding his bicycle on Kraal Road when upon reaching the junction with Pen Road, a man who he recognized rode up and fired several shot at him from close range. One of the bullets hit Jeffery in the left forearm. Today, twenty year old Tarique Cadle, a mechanic of Supal Street, was slapped with one count of Attempted Murder. He too was remanded until October twenty-sixth.


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