Two wounded in separate city shootings

A Belize City student remains in critical condition tonight after he sustained a gunshot wound to the head on Friday night. But this shooting was no ordinary drive by or the result of a “misunderstanding.” Police reports are that around ten that night, seventeen year old Aubrey Hernandez and two female relatives were sitting outside their home on Plues Street when Hernandez suddenly collapsed. He was rushed to the K.H.M.H. where doctors made the startling discovery: a bullet had lodged itself in Hernandez’s skull. The teenager underwent emergency surgery and tonight attending physicians are cautiously optimistic about his prognosis. As to where the bullet came from, investigating officers believe that someone in the area must have fired a weapon into the air and the bullet fell and hit an unsuspecting Hernandez.

And while police are trying to find the origin of Friday night’s bullet, another weekend shooting is less mysterious. Just after noon on Monday twenty-seven year old Calbert Budd Junior was on Iguana Street when he became involved in an argument with an unnamed man. The argument escalated to the point where the man pulled out a nine millimetre handgun and fired several shots, wounding Budd in the left arm and leg. He remains hospitalised at the K.H.M.H. in stable condition. Budd was able to identify the shooter and police are currently looking for their suspect.