There was a murder in Belize City this afternoon. It happened at about 1:45 on Castle Street, which is between New Road and Freetown Road. Police say 25 year old Glenford Vernon was getting a tattoo when he was shot. I spoke - off camera - to the man who picked him up and rushed him to the hospital:...
Bystander, Assisted Victim
"Right around the lane about 2 lots from this house, my friend came with her daughter. We just came from a press conference and I was laughing and talking having a few drinks and afterwards I heard "pow." So put down the baby and told everyone to duck. After that I heard like 6 more shots. But somebody passes and said that it was one of my family resident on Castle Street. So I ran from here around the lane. When I look, it was in the tattoo shop that my family own. I said it must be my family. So when I ran in there I saw someone with multiple gunshot wounds to his body. I don't know the guy. But from we were little, my father taught us to help people in these situations. So when I ran into the shop I saw him with his head backwards and his eye turned up and blood spraying and like people passing the shop and peeping. I told them to call 911. Someone came and assist. A police who lives on Victoria came and I came and took off some of those guys shirt and place it on the wound."
"As I reached in there I lift up his head and told him to stay with us, don't go. Then he started to get back consciousness. Then the police officer, who was off duty came and help me. On the way to the hospital, I still talking to him when the last thing he said, he was trying to tell me something, but I saw like blood coming out of his mouth and so I told him to stay with us. Putting him on the stretcher, he was still breathing and everything. I don't know. Maybe it might be 50/50."
And while he said it was 50-50, police this evening confirmed that Vernon - who is a resident of Cran Street - was killed. We spoke with the commander for the northside formation:..
ACP Dezeree Phillips, OC - Eastern Division North
"All I can say at this time is somewhere around 1:45pm we received information of shots being fired at the Castle Street by a tattoo shop and that's where Glenford Vernon was doing a tattoo and a male person entered and fired several shots. He was rushed the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and a few minutes thereafter he succumb to his injuries. That's the basic information that I can give at this time and that we are looking for one person."
Vernon's family declined comment.
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