As you can tell from the tone of the news so far tonight, the weekend was relatively calm except for one city shooting. 37 year old taxi man Carl Lamb was shot to the thigh in front of his Gladden Street home. It happened early Saturday morning and police have already charged a 15 year old for the crime. The head of CIB told us more at today's press briefing.
Alejandro Cowo, OC - CIB
"On Saturday the 3rd of February 2018 sometime after 4:00am in the morning, police visited the KHMH where they observed a male person by the name of Carl Lamb, 37 year old Belizean taxi driver with an apparent gunshot wound to the left thigh. What police gather so far is that Mr. Lamb had just arrived at his house, he was just exiting his vehicle when he was approached by a person who was walking beside him and calling his name, the person continued walking and he looked at the person in a suspicious manner and thereafter the person start to walk back to his direction as a result he exited his vehicle and start to walk to his apartment and upon reaching his apartment several shots were fired by this male person it caught him to his right thigh. He was admitted to the hospital and has been discharged that morning. So far police detained several persons in regards to this shooting incident."
"As a result of the shooting incident of Carl Lamb, on Sunday the 4th of February police arrested and charged a minor for murder and attempted murder."
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