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Truck Driver Shot By Mexican Robbers Recuperating In Belize
Tue, December 29, 2015
On our Christmas Eve Newscast, we told you about Belizean Albert Gentle, a truck driver from Georgeville Village in Cayo. He was shot in the head on December 24 during a robbery while he was at a gas station in Villahermosa, Mexico.

Well, we have confirmed that he's at home recuperating from that gunshot to the head. We spoke with him very briefly via telephone this evening, and he told us that his doctors say that he suffering from swelling in the brain caused by the bullet. He told us that as part of the bed rest regiment, he's not allowed to talk very much because it is taxing on his health at this time.

Gentle was driving an 18-wheeler truck which was towing a container, and he was part of a convoy of 10 vehicles traveling to Belize. He briefly separated from the rest of the convoy, and stopped at a gas station in Villahermosa, the largest City in the Mexican State of Tabasco.

That's when a group of 5 robbers, believed to be Mexican, ambushed Gentle and his sideman, and robbed them at gunpoint. At some point during the incident, he was shot by one of his assailants, but the bullet mostly grazed him.

We understand that he was discharged from a Mexican hospital, and he was able to spend Christmas with his family at home.

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