Suspect detained in city shooting

Belize City police have detained a suspect in connection with a shooting incident on Wednesday night. According to authorities twenty-eight year old Troy Trapp of West Canal told them that around seven-thirty that night he was at the corner of West and Plues streets when a man who he was able to identify walked up to him and pulled out a handgun. Trapp told police he started to struggle with his assailant and was able to push the man down. Trapp managed to get away by running along the canal side, but was hotly pursued. That’s when Trapp told police he heard several gunshots fired in his direction. Trapp was grazed by one of the bullets in the right side of his upper back. He was treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and released.