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Schizophrenic Stabbed On Saturday
posted (July 12, 2016)
75% of the news last night was about crime and violence, so we left out a few stories, which we're reporting on tonight.

First, 22 year old Byron Jeffords a resident of Wagner's Lane in Belize City was stabbed on Racecourse Street with a broken pint bottle. The family told us that sometime around 6:45 pm on Saturday, he went to a shop on Racecourse Street to purchase some cigarettes for a friend. It was then that he was jumped by several individuals who stabbed him several times. He is currently at the KHMH suffering from three stab wounds: one under his arm, one beneath his heart area and one on his chest that injured his lungs. He is admitted in a stable condition and doctors say he is going to make it out alive, but the family fears for the time when he does come out, because according to them, this is not the first time that Jeffords has been targeted with violence.

Tiffara Wallace, Sister of Stabbing Victim
"In 2011 when he was 17 years old, he was gunned down on our street Wagner's Lane at the corner whereby he took 9 of them if his foot. His tibia and fibula bone was broken. We never got any assistance or anything to fix back his feet. Them before that when he was about 15 years old, he was kidnapped whereby they tried to cut his throat, they stabbed him in his hand and now in 2016 where we are in, that's when they attempted again to kill him."

Emanuel Pech
"Do you think it's related?"

Tiffara Wallace, Sister of Stabbing Victim
"Probably yes, because it's his same friends going to school at St. Ignatius, he said that the people that he had gone to school with that's the person he noticed."

Emanuel Pech
"What makes your brother a walking target?"

Tiffara Wallace, Sister of Stabbing Victim
"It's like I said, it's just the area he lives, that making him a walking target. It's not that he is in any gang. Like I said he has his past with police, yes by robbing and stuff like that, but he doesn't have a past with the police by violence of killing anyone."

Emanuel Pech
"Now your brother is at the hospital fighting for his life pretty much. What's his condition? What are the doctors telling you?"

Tiffara Wallace, Sister of Stabbing Victim
"They told us that they need to drain the rest of blood that's in his lungs and they need to make sure that his lungs starts to expand. So he has to stay calm and relax. He can't move as much. Whenever he moves from one point to another, like from the room to the bathroom, we have to take a kit that they put in his lungs which drains and that help him to breathe. He is like on a machine that they test him every morning to see if he can take that machine to 6000. If that machine does not reach that then that means his lungs is not ready for that machine to come out so he can breathe on his own. So that is telling us that his life is not normal anymore. He cannot play ball as he use to do or anything at all."

The family says Jeffords suffers from schizophrenia- a symptom he developed from all those traumatic attacks he endured as a child growing up on Wagner's Lane. Meanwhile police have yet to catch up to his attackers.

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