The indiscriminate spate of violence continues in the streets of the Old Capital as two Belize City men are tonight recovering from various gunshot wounds following a shooting incident on Reggae Street on Thursday night. Police reports are that sometime around eight o’clock thirty-eight year old Arden Middleton and thirty year old Noel Usher were […]
The notorious Edward Lord lived a dangerous life; and on Wednesday evening shortly after five o’clock, he was executed in a most horrific way. A hail of bullets from a high powered weapon, possibly an Uzi or an AK-forty-seven, was unleashed at him on Mahogany Street and by the time he got to the hospital, […]
In another murder, a student of St. Johns Junior College was shot and killed on Sunday night. The Police Department has since charged another student for the homicide. Eighteen year old Steven Perez was on Dolphin Street when he was shot in the wrist, abdomen and chest. Cemetery Road resident, Ruben Price was charged for […]
Two Belize City businesses are out thousands of dollars after being hit by thieves. Fifty-four year old Neenu Chugani reported that her business, Suneel’s Store at the corner of Orange and West Streets was broken into. The burglary occurred while the store was closed between Tuesday and Wednesday. A total of fifteen thousand, one hundred […]
At news time, a person identified as Edward Lord, was shot and killed on Mahogany Street. The shooting took place at around five-thirty and Lord died on the way to the hospital. Edward is a known associate of Darrien Banks, who serving time in prison and whose brother, Jessim Gladden, was killed as recent as […]
A sizeable drug bust netting fifty-three parcels of cocaine was made on Saturday in the Stann Creek District. The police reported today that three Colombian nationals have been arrested and charged for drug trafficking and prohibited firearm and ammunition. They are Alberto Bedoya, Hernan Dario O’Quendo and Yeney De Jesus Echavaria Manco of Medellin, Colombia. […]
On Monday night we told you that the body of Anthony Trapp, a resident of Unitedville, was discovered after his sister reported him missing. Today a postmortem conducted on the body points to evidence that Trapp was murdered. A search party was combing the area on Monday afternoon and shortly before four Trapp’s body was […]
There are two murders to report tonight in the Old Capital. The first involves a minor who was shot several times to the head as he made his way home in the vicinity of South Creek and Kraal Road. Police were on patrol in the area and responded when they heard gunshots, but the minor […]
The second murder claimed the life of another teenager on Sunday night who may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. A gunman on a bicycle was on Dolphin Street when he opened fire indiscriminately, hitting eighteen year old Steven Perez several times. Perez was injured and transported to the KHMH where […]
There’s another victim to the violence. On Friday night we told you about thirty-nine year old Jessim Gladden who was hospitalized in a critical condition after he being shot multiple times last Thursday night. Well, Gladden succumbed around eleven-thirty on Friday night to gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen. Gladden, who is the brother […]
Tonight a Lake I man is on life support at the Karl Huesner Memorial Hospital in the Intensive Care Unit after he was shot multiple times. The street was crowded with children and adults on Thursday night, but the fun ended abruptly when two men pulled up on the resident and fired indiscriminately. News Five’s […]
A resident of Red Bank Village in the Stann Creek District has been arrested for the brutal slaying of a fellow villager. On Monday, police discovered the body of forty-seven year old Guatemalan National, Luis Maas, on a feeder road between Cowpen and Redbank Villages. Maas was partially decapitated and had a cut wound on […]
Early this afternoon, seventeen year old Kadeem Monsanto was gunned down by three men; he died soon after he was rushed to the hospital. The minor is the second son of the reputed former gang leader, Clay Monsanto, to die in gun violence. The older Monsanto now lives in the United States. The trouble started […]
Romel Palacio Sr., a former B.D.F. soldier, was shot on Sunday morning by a trio who simply walked into his house on Jane Usher Boulevard and unleashed a hail of bullets on him in the presence of family members. Palacio was on life support since then and this morning he expired at the Karl Heusner […]
There is another case of murder to solve. The body of a murdered man was discovered on Monday, one hundred yards into a feeder road in Red Bank Village, Stann Creek. The victim has since been identified as forty-seven year old Luis Maas, a Guatemalan national who lived in the village. Maas was found lying […]
On Monday afternoon, the body of twenty-eight year old fireman, Gilbert Andrews was found suspended from a rope in his home in Benque Viejo del Carmen. But tonight his family is crying ‘foul play’ because they say a number of items including jewelry, cash, clothing and appliances are missing from his house. Anna Williams, Andrews’s […]
It was a violent weekend in the city and the west. Early on Saturday evening in downtown San Ignacio, a man was killed in front of a restaurant and an acquaintance will be charged for his murder. David Guerra was stabbed once in the chest and died shortly afterwards. According to his family, the suspect, […]
The weekend’s other murder was in the city where the family of Delbert Hinds prepares lay him to rest while a former B.D.F. soldier is clinging to life. Shortly after seven-thirty on Friday night, thirty-two year old Hinds, aka Snypa, was gunned down in one of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods. He did not stand […]
So far we have reported on murders in the west and in the city, but in San Pedro police are investigating a shooting fourteen miles north of town on Saturday. According to Freddy Jaime, a resident of the island, at about eight o’clock that night he was walking along the beach in the vicinity of […]
There was a violent domestic dispute in Dangriga over the weekend and a woman was seriously injured. At around twenty minutes after three on Sunday morning, police found twenty-one year old Felicia Kratzer lying inside her house at the corner of Pen and Melinda Roads with large cut wounds on her neck, right thumb, right […]
Gunshots rang out in the dead of the night on Central American Boulevard. A taxi driver was executed by two men who rode up on bicycles and fired at least six shots on Kevin Flowers. The bullets found their mark in his head, chest and arm. Flowers was rushed to the hospital but passed away […]
On Tuesday night we told you about an attempted robbery in Orange Walk at New Hong Fua Supermarket located on the Corozal Road. Shortly before three o’clock yesterday evening four men, two armed with firearms entered the supermarket and attempted to rob the establishment. Owner, fifty three year old Guoqui Chen told police that one […]
There was an attempted robbery at a store in Orange Walk earlier today. The details are still sketchy; however, it appears that New Hong Fua Supermarket, located on Corozal Road, was targeted by at least two thieves. While the store was not robbed, one of the assailants jacked a businessman, thirty-three year old Adan Awe, […]
Also in court, a fifteen year old male student of Belize City claims that he was sexually abused by a twenty-four year old man. The Social Services Personnel have intervened in the case and, based on the child’s report, led police to detain Kareem Hamilton, a resident of Morter’s Alley. The minor alleges that in […]
The body of twenty-seven year old Englebert Reynolds remains at the morgue at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight following a vicious slaying at the start of the weekend. On Friday night, shortly before eleven o’clock, Reynolds was riding his bicycle near Waight Street when he was penetrated with an economy of rounds which found […]
