Tonight a Belize City taxi driver and two of his passengers are lucky to be
alive after the vehicle they were travelling in was riddled with as many as
fifteen bullets. But it’s not some kind of carjacking or armed robbery,
from the looks of it, it’s just extreme road rage. Around two forty five
this morning, twenty seven year old Shawn Ortiz was driving his Toyota Corolla
car on Water Lane just behind a Volkswagen Jetta.
Ortiz claims the Jetta was being driven recklessly and the driver suddenly
stopped at the corner of Alexandria Street. A person described only as a brown
complexioned man then got out of the passenger side, approached Shawn Ortiz
and threw a punch at him but missed. That is when Ortiz says he reached down
for a machete hidden under the car seat but the assailant then grabbed for his
handgun that looked like a nine milimeter pistol, pointed it at the taxi man
and fired several shots. The bullets shattered the left rear glass window, Shawn
Ortiz then zoomed out of the danger zone but as he sped away another bullet
ripped through the vehicle’s trunk. Luckily, everyone managed to get way
without being shot.
Belize City Police say they have no suspects at this time and are investigating
to see if it was a case of road rage or if Shawn Ortiz was intentionally targeted
for some unknown reason.
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