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Pre Dawn Sunday Slaying In City
posted (September 1, 2014)
There are two weekend murders to report tonight - one of them, the kind we've seen too many times before in Belize City, the other an outlandish and savage assault in Punta Gorda. We start in the city where a man was killed early Sunday morning on Faber's Road.

Before dawn, at 4:30 am, 38 year old City resident Michael Usher was riding alone at the far end of Faber's Road when a lone gunman shot and killed him. Monica Bodden spoke to his family today.

Voice of: sister of murder victim
"I really think they chance my brother and thing because it's from the back my brother got shot. Its not like he could have defend himself."

Monica Bodden
"You know if he had just left home or if he was coming home?"

Voice of: sister of murder victim
"He had just left from home because he had come in earlier from 7pm because I went to buy food to eat. This morning we found out that the man got shot and die on Faber's Road."

Monica Bodden
"How many shots did he received?"

Voice of: sister of murder victim
"They said it's like 2 in his head back and 4 in his body. He always was moving about. He was always on Faber's Road. He was not someone who was hiding. He goes anywhere as normal. He did tell us that somebody wanted to do him something or anything - he moves around normal. My other brother William, he got shot about 8 years ago and died on Jump Street and now other brother got shot and died."

Michael Usher's brother William Usher was killed on Wagner's Lane eight years ago.

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