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Despite Alibi Claims, Man Charged For Castillo Shooting
posted (May 23, 2013)
Last night, Kareem Gillett's family came on the news to protest the fact that he was about to be charged for the attempted murder of 33 year-old Peter Castillo. They had alibi's and claimed that he had been beaten by police. But none of that mattered to investigators who marched him to court today.

Gillett was taken before the Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith who read him the charges of attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm with a firearm upon 33-year-old Ministry of Works employee, Peter Phillip Castillo.

No plea was taken from Gillett, and due to the nature of the offenses, he was denied bail and remanded to the Belize Central Prison until June 21, 2013.

Castillo reported to police that, on Saturday Morning, he left his house on Jane Usher Boulevard, and while walking on Faber's Road, he was approached by two men, one he knew as "Fifty Cents", the other as "Patchen".

He said that from about a foot away, Fifty Cents pulled out a .38 revolver firearm from his pants waist front and fired a single shot hitting him at the back of his head.

Castillo then threw himself towards Fifty Cents in order to take away the gun from him, but that's when he came face-to-face with his attacker for about 40 seconds

Fearing for his life, Castillo then tried to hit the gun with his hand, and he ran away towards his friend's house. That's when his shooter fired 3 more shots in his direction, two of which caught him to his right upper back and the other to his right leg.

Castillo was rushed to the KHMH for treatment, and police later visited him there where he positively identified one of his attackers as Kareem Gillett from a photo gallery showed to him.

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