There were three shootings in Belize City this weekend.
But the first shooting which happened on Friday night on Kraal Road in the Yabra area appears to have been a domestic, not a gang dispute.
At 8:45 on Friday night, 40-year-old Walter BEATON, was in a dispute with a female near the corner with Ceasar Ridge and Kraal Road. He was riding away when a man on a bicycle shot him.
Beaton was only hit in his left hand, but he jumped off his bicycle into a drain adjoining the Wilt Cummerbatch Field - where he laid low until police arrived. He was treated and released.
But Saturday night's shooting was more serious. At 9:20p.m., 22-year-old Efrain Assi and four other men were sitting on the bleachers at the Complex basketball court when a gunman crept up behind the bleachers and fired six shots at them. Only Assi was hit and he got it multiple times. He is in a stable condition at the KHMH.
And then there was another shooting on Sunday night - this time a 17-year-old minor was almost killed. At 9:25, Clinton Pou was walking on Poinsetta Street, when three men on bicycles and one man on foot pulled up on Pou. The man on foot, shot him once in the face. The bullet entered through his left cheek, and exited through his neck. Miraculously, he is also in a stable condition - and today his mother told us how he made it:...
Dorla Foreman - Mother of Pou
"I just say that he didn't die."
Monica Bodden
"Did you hear the shot?"
Dorla Foreman - Mother of Pou
"I heard the shot, just one shot - I said that Clinton - that just came to me like that and I said that's Clinton. I ran upstairs and a person came and say that Clinton got shot, come help. My two kids ran and they stayed at the house. I ran upstairs again and found him and his stepfather sleeping. He (stepfather) ran to help them, so he at the hospital with Clinton right now. It took me a long time to go and see him. I don't know what to have expect to see him - I just can't stand to see blood because when he was in a accident, they came and tell me that I have to go see him. Well I made up one mind and went to see him last night."
Monica Bodden
"He got shot where?"
Dorla Foreman - Mother of Pou
"He told me behind his neck back and the bullet came through here (his cheek). I told him that this is a warning because not everyone gets a warning, but I didn't feel any death."
Monica Bodden
"I understand that he was shot at close range?"
Dorla Foreman - Mother of Pou
"Close."
Monica Bodden
"So the gunman just walk up to him and....."
Dorla Foreman - Mother of Pou
"He walk at the side of him. This make me feel down and weak. I never know how someone would have felt when these things happen and now I know how other mothers feel, other family feels when there love ones get shot. I feel the hurt, which is what I felt last night. I am not going to take up for any kids because when they are at home, everything is nice and beautiful, but you don't know what they do outside. Home is different, so we don't know. You can't swear for them and say my kid is a nice person, he doesn't do anything and he is perfect - I don't know."
No arrest has been made.
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