City shooting appears to be revenge

The homicide count for 2007 was almost raised by one when shots rang out in Belize City just before the year expired. Fortunately, twenty-one year old Marlon Foreman survived the gunshots. The incident occurred as Foreman was riding a bicycle on Iguana Street around eleven forty-five on Monday night. His mother, Geraldine Usher, says she believes her son was targeted following a previous shooting in which, despite claiming an alibi, he was accused of being the triggerman.

Geraldine Usher, Mother of shooting victim
“Bout one month ago this boy seh dat he shot ah. But they seh di three mask man had on mask. Somebody tell he dat dah Marlon, my son, and wah next young man. So my son gone dah prison, spend wah month and change dah prison for it, he get bail, he come out. He send di message to my son and tell my son he must watch ih back because if he think ih get weh, ih nuh get weh and ih nuh safe. So the nite my son get wah phone call and he gone, but ih look like dah di same person set up ah, right. And when he gone ih seh he see di vehicle behind ah di come, but he neva mi di follow it much. He seh and when he look he see this man come out … come with the gun fi shot ah inna ih head, but he strong ah.”

Usher says that her son’s decision to fight and then run saved him from being shot in the head. However, it was while fleeing that he took bullets in the left side of the abdomen and right leg. Foreman is now in stable condition at the K.H.M.H. and police say they have detained the suspected gunman pending charges.