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Rider Ran For Cover From Shooters
posted (May 22, 2015)
And while police were still processing that scene, a man was shot in the Jane Usher Boulevard Area of Belize City. At around 7:45 32-year-old Luis Dominguez of St. Thomas Street was riding his bicycle on J.R. Street, when a man emerged from a yard and shot at him.

He might've gotten killed but he scrambled into a friends yard for shelter. We spoke to one of his friends today who told us how she ran out to try and save him.

Courtney Weatherburne reporting
Luis Dominguez was shot near this wooden green house last night. Trying to hold on to life and escape from his shooter he managed to run to this yard where his friends live.

With blood-stains trailing behind him, he entered the yard and frantically called out for help.

Voice of Witness
"More or less I would say about 7:50pm this happened. I was inside attending to my kids when we heard the gunshots."

Courtney Weatherburne
"How many gunshots you heard?"

Voice of Witness
"I heard about 2 gunshots."

Courtney Weatherburne
"In the yard or at the front?"

Voice of Witness
"Out in the street we heard it."

Courtney Weatherburne
"What happened after that?"

Voice of Witness
"When those gunshots shoots off, as that happened we heard the person run come in the yard and say that he got shot. When he came in the yard and said that he got shot, everybody pulled open their doors. By the time I pulled open my door I had already saw him on my step and I ask him where he has gotten shot. He said that a young man shot him 2 times. When I came out, I yelled for the neighbors to call the police. They call the police more than one time. I don't know if the police took it for a prank call or something like that before they came. They took about 15 minutes or so before they arrive here. I look at the guy and saw blood coming out of his mouth and his nose and he told me that he got shot in his neck. He showed me his neck and I saw a hole in his neck. Blood was draining from his neck too and so I ran upstairs in my house and I came in here for a t-shirt. I told the guy to put the t-shirt around his neck to apply pressure on it to make the bleeding slow down a little bit so it doesn't bleed out a lot. He ran to everybody house. After he left by my step, he ran over by the other house and it was so that everyone came out."

And with everybody helping, Dominguez held on until the police arrived.

Voice of Witness
"He was starting to get weak. He said that he was getting weak and by the time he said that, the police was just arriving down the lane."

Courtney Weatherburne
"The ambulance came?"

Voice of Witness
"Not even they reach back here."

While that was happening back there, Dominguez's friend of 4 years who lives in King's Park received a frightening call about the shooting.

Voice of Witness
"Like minutes to 9pm, we got a call. He called one of his friend and say that he just got shot and the phone cut off and the friend call back his phone and we just heard siren and we went to the hospital and we heard he got shot in his face and in his shoulder."

Police have one person detained. When we spoke with the witness this afternoon after she visited him in the hospital, she told us that Dominguez knows who shot him.

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