Tonight a 16 year old Belize City male is on life support at the KHMH after being shot in the head at noon today.
That he even has a tenuous grip on life is a minor miracle; he was the victim of a daring and lawless execution attempt - carried out by an unmasked man in plain view of dozens of pedestrians and passersby at one of the city's busiest intersections.
The streets say it is part of the ongoing rivalry between Kelly and Victoria streets - a feud that has already claimed the life of a nine year old 6 days ago.
And now it is a 16 year old - we found out more about the shooting when we got to the scene minutes later:..
Jules Vasquez Reporter
Eyewitnesses say that at almost exactly midday - at this crowded intersection, 16 year old Justin Stephan Teck was riding at the busy four way intersection at Cinderella Plaza, when two men rode up on bicycle, one of them pulled out a pistol resembling a 22 and shot him twice in the head.
He fell here on the street right in front of Yinkee Restaurant as the unmasked men rode off. Somehow, he survived those two shots and eyewitnesses say he even gathered himself to sit upright.
A passing police truck took him to the hospital where he is on life support. Teck lives nearby on Hunter's Lane - which is considered part of Kelly Street - and it is widely believed that this was retaliation from Victoria Street in the wake of the killing of Joshua Abraham:
Jules Vasquez
"Is this a part of the ongoing rivalry between Kelly Street and Victoria Street? We know he was from Hunter's Lane which is included in the Kelly Street area."
Fitzroy Yearwood, Police Press Officer
"Well Jules I will have to give the investigators time to find out the motive for this shooting before I can really say that this is a part of that."
Jules Vasquez
"The information is that the shooter is from another area, is there a change that he was contracted by one of the rival groups to come in and execute a hit?"
Fitzroy Yearwood, Police Press Officer
"Jules, all I can say is that definitely it's somebody not a friend of his and first to just summarize it we would have to say "rivalry". But you know in this ongoing rivalry you just have to live in a certain neighborhood and you are classified to be a part of that problem."
The victim, Justin Teck is still clinging to life tonight.
He had just started school at the Youth For The Future.
Police have a known suspect who they are looking for a known suspect who comes from another area of town across the bridge.
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