Bystander wounded in city shooting

A Belize City mother is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting incident earlier today. According to police reports, twenty-nine year old Denise Flowers was wounded in the right side of her abdomen by one of two men on bicycles near the Queen Square Market. Flowers was rushed to the K.H.M.H. for emergency treatment and was out of surgery by twelve thirty. Her doctors say the prognosis is positive. This afternoon, Andrea Tucker told us her sister was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Andrea Tucker, Sister of Shooting Victim
?The two bway deh, the understanding whe I get, the two bway deh gawn jack two Spanish by the Chiney. And my sista went there at the same time to buy but she neva know da whe meh deh happen and she gawn deh fu buy thing fu cook and so. And deh Spanish supposed to haul out machete affa the two bway deh and the bway supposed to haul out deh weapon and fire shoot back and my sista get the bullet instead ah deh Spanish deh. Da just by accident. I have to seh thanks to the hospital because they really really work fast pan me sista as they come in. They neva waste no time pan ah and eh meh get the blood and whatever eh need and so far eh wah be okay. Nothing no wah happen to eh spinal and so.?

Superintendent Chester Williams, Head, C.I.B.
?We have one person in custody at this time, Lionel Neal and we?re looking for another person in connection with that incident.?

Janelle Chanona
?Mr. Neal is the shooter??

Chester Williams
?From our investigations, no he is not the shooter but he was with the shooter who did the shooting.?

Police say the suspected gunman has yet to be detained.