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Last night, another Belize City man was shot in the face. Around 9:30 last night, 34 year-old Kingsley Ferguson was with his girlfriend in front of her house on Jones Street in the Lake Independence Area when 2 men double-riding on the same bicycle rolled up. 

The man on the handle took out a handgun and shot him at close range in the right side of his face. The bullet exited the left side of his jaw, and when he collapsed, his attackers rode off. He was rushed to the KHMH, where he received emergency medical treatment. Â Today, Investigators from Police Precinct 2 told the media that they believe that it was a case of mistaken identity:

Sgt. Ismael Westby, NCO-CIB, Precinct 2
"Sometime around 9:20 p.m. police responded to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they met a male person suffering from gunshot injuries to the right side of the face and an apparent suspected wound to the left side of the jaw.  Initial investigation in respect to this incident reveals that whilst this guy who was identified as Kingsley Ferguson, thirty-four-years-[old], citizen of Belize City was on Jones Street meeting with his girlfriend at that location and whilst there two male persons riding a bicycle, double-riding came from the direction of Administration Drive and upon passing Ferguson they discharged a firearm on him causing the said injuries."

Isani Cayetano – Channel 5 News
"Is there any truth to the fact that he was holding a child when he was accosted?"

Sgt. Ismael Westby
"No, he was not holding the child.  Who was holding the child was his girlfriend."

Renee Trujillo - LOVE News
"Any motive?"

Sgt. Ismael Westby
"What our initial investigation is looking at at this moment is that there could be a possibility of a mistaken identity and the reason why I am saying that is relations due to the previous incident that we had during the weekend - which was a shooting that occurred at the corner of Tibruce Street and Poinsetta Street and then an incident that occurred at the basketball court on Alicia Street behind Martin’s area."

Daniel Ortiz
"Do you suspect that this is another uprising of gang rivalry in this particular location?

Sgt. Ismael Westby
"We are looking in that direction. We are taking it seriously, that situation."

Police believe that this attack may be connected to the shootings which happened on last Saturday night and Sunday Night, which left 22 year-old Efrain Assi and 17 year-old Clinton Pou hospitalized. Pou was shot on Saturday night in the back of his neck, and the bullet exited the left side of his jaw.