There is confirmation tonight that a prison inmate was stabbed to the neck yesterday – while police was transporting a group of inmates back to the Hattieville Prison after a court date session.
18 year old Anthony Carballo Jr – who is on remand for murder - told family members from his hospital bed -that he was stabbed by an inmate from a rival gang who had been left unshackled by police. After he was stabbed, he alleged that he was tasered and then tear gas before he was taken to the hospital. Today in an interview with 7news, his aunt told us more about what happened.
Voice of Anothon'y Aunt
"Well apparently Anthony is in the Belize Central Prison on remand and he was brought down to Belize City for a case in the Magistrate's Court. Upon heading back he was taken by the Police Department - there were several of them in the police van being transported to the Belize Central Prison. Some of them were handcuffed not all of them were handcuffed and upon arriving close to the Prison one of the inmates that were not handcuffed approached him and started stabbing him with a metal object that we call 'bora'.
He got stabbed twice in the neck. One of the stabs actually caught him a few centimeters away from his jugular vein which could have been deadly and the second one was more towards the back of the neck. When I got a call to go see him at the emergency room and I saw the two wounds that were inflicted on him, I asked him what had happened they were going up in this police van and he was stabbed and to defend himself the only thing he could have done was use his foot to stamp away the guy. The guy went again and attacked him and he stamped the guy away a second time and that was when a second person in the same van got stabbed somewhere to the bottom of the lip. He said that he and these guys that got stabbed were handcuffed. The guys that did the stabbing were not handcuffed. Then the police vehicle stopped and they opened the back of the van where all of them were and the first thing the police did was taser him and he said to the police 'boss I was the one that got stabbed '. He told me that the guy with the two stripes said to him 'taser him again' and that was when he got tasered a second time and that was when they noticed blood was coming from his neck they pulled him out from the van."
The family is demanding a thorough investigation by the police department. They have already filed a complaint with internal affairs.
In May of 2013, 18 year old Anthony Carballo Jr was charged for the murder of 48 year old Jeremy McNab- the owner of Mobile Hardware Store.
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