We've already told you about the 3 murders and 4 shooting incidents which happened over the weekend, but there was another which happened in Hattieville on Saturday night. The homeowners of a house on Yssaguirre Boulevard were having a birthday party, and in the early hours of Sunday Morning, shots were fired into the crowd.
The birthday girl spoke to us yesterday, and she explained what happened at the height of the party, when the gun violence blindsided the partygoers:
Voice of: Birthday girl
"Everybody was on their own ways in the yard because we had a male stripper. After he finish performing, we decide that everybody would get under the tent and start to dance and thing. Everybody was underneath the tent and I was right in front of the young man that got shot. I don't know where the shot came from because at first I thought it was one of those big pop-shot. I just saw him drop at my feet saying that he got shot. Then after that everyone just ran their own ways and two of his friends took him at the health center out there and the ambulance came to pick him up from out there."
Reporter
"So there was no kind of fight or argument or anything preceding that gunshot?"
Voice of: Birthday girl
"Nothing - everyone was having fun. Nothing to indicate that anything would have happen."
40-year-old Belize City Gregory Leslie received injuries to his hand and abdomen. 26-year-old Kevin Staine of Hattieville who received injuries to the back of the head and Police Corporal of Police Orlando Bowen, who is attached to the Ladyville Station, received injury/grazed to the hand.
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