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Another Central American Blvd. Murder
posted (March 10, 2020)

24-year-old Devon Arnold, a resident of Arlington Drive lost his life on Friday night in yet another shooting on Belize City's Central American Boulevard.

Police say that sometime before 8 p.m., he and 42-year-old Wayne Pratt along with others were socializing near Tammy Store. That's when 2 gunmen opened fire on the group. Injuring Arnold and Pratt.

They were both rushed to the KHMH. Arnold would away 2 hours later.  We spoke to his sister today off camera:

Crystal Morris

Sister of the deceased 

“They said they shot him in his head and from his head, the shot, the two bullets in his head caused everything to shut down and we lost him.

I was at my house when my mother called me and told me that they’d shot my brother. We went to the hospital and we were with him until he passed.

Everybody is sad my mom can’t even hold up my mom is so sad, that’s my mom’s second son. She doesn’t know how to cope with it none at all.

He meant a lot to us because he was my brother and my mother’s second son. We all loved him, they took away my brother for nothing, my brother hadn’t done anything to anyone he hadn’t done anyone wrong, my brother got caught up in something that he didn’t even belong in. They took my brother away from us for nothing.

He didn’t belong in whatever they were out there with, they killed my cousin like five months ago and the same person just came back and has kept on haunting our family for nothing.”

No enemies. He didn’t have any enemies. why when they told him anything or to keep off the street he said he could go because he hadn’t done anything to anyone. He hadn’t done any wrong to anyone.

No kids that’s what hurt my mom because my mom doesn’t even have a grandchild to say well this one is from Devon, you know, that is what hurt my mom the most. My brother hurt all of us, my sister, my mom has eight of us and now one is missing out of the eight so she’s only left with seven. They took advantage of my brother for nothing. This is how I'm seeing that they’re taking it. It's as if you can’t catch Harry, you'll catch his shirt. How are you going to kill a man who hasn’t done you any wrong? But God is not sleeping Ms. God is not sleeping, he’s not sleeping.

Pratt was, fortunately, able to survive the attack, he was admitted to the hospital in a stable condition.

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