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Zimbab: How I Dodged Death
posted (November 21, 2014)
Tonight the city remains calm after the attempt on the life of George Street General, Carlos "Zimbab" Abraham yesterday in Belize City. As we told you, Abraham was on Lakeview Street yesterday morning at 10:00 when a gunman opened fire on him as he sat in his SUV. Even though he was shot in the face, Abraham survived. Today he spoke to us via phone from his hospital bed and told us how he did it:..

Jules Vasquez
"How serious are your injuries?"

Carlos Abraham AKA Zimbab, Stable Condition
"Minor you know, the bullet didn't touch any main organs, it's just flesh wounds. I got shot in my face, in my jaw and then it ricochet through my neck."

Jules Vasquez
"But how you survive a shot to the face?"

Carlos Abraham AKA Zimbab, Stable Condition
"The Father above, I tilt my seat before I see the shot coming and so I just pull back my head."

Jules Vasquez
"How far was the shooter when he shot after you?"

Carlos Abraham AKA Zimbab, Stable Condition
"About 6-8 feet from me. Close, I was looking down the barrel of the gun."

Jules Vasquez
"But you saw then circling."

Carlos Abraham AKA Zimbab, Stable Condition
"Yes, I saw them prior to the shooting, they passed me by. I saw them, but like I said its some youth that I knew, who are always begging and I always give them something. I didn't have that in my mind that that was what they were up to. When I saw them, one man stop at the lane and then one man continue. I felt like they were coming to ask for something because that's the usual thing like I said. So when I conscious, the youth was close and I look back to see what was his intention. I saw the gun being raised up at me now. The only thing I could have done was pull back way in my vehicle between the iron thing between the two window and that was how I avoid all the shots through that spot. When the man done shot me he ran. He was more frighten that me. I was about to drive myself to the hospital. I got shot on my neck and the blood sprayed out like a pipe. I took off my jacket and I tie my neck tight to stop the pressure of the blood and I start my vehicle and swing it around, then my uncle yelled for his son to take me to the hospital and so I got into the passenger side and he drove the car. I walk come into the hospital."

And tonight he remains in the hospital in a stable condition. He says he is eager to go home. As he noted, his most serious injuries are a fractured jaw and shoulder.

Surely, he is lucky to be alive, but many have asked what was Abraham doing in the territory of another gang, the Ghost Town Crips. He told us he had no concern at all being there because he was visiting his uncle's tyre shop in a neighborhood he actually grew up in:..

Jules Vasquez
"You were doing business?"

Carlos Abraham AKA Zimbab, Stable Condition
"It was business. I went to my uncle because we are trying to get a container of tyres in town to sell used tyres and my uncle and I are in the business, so I went to him to finalize the thing. I wasn't there not even 5 minutes, about 2-3 minutes the longest."

Jules Vasquez
"But then you were in Ghost Town zone."

Carlos Abraham AKA Zimbab, Stable Condition
"I was born and grown here, down Banak Street right where I got shot. I retired from the streets a long time. 2-3 years now I move from George Street, I don't even live around George Street. I don't even live in town. I move out of this thing all together due to my little youths them."

Jules Vasquez
"You will press charges because they caught the guy."

Carlos Abraham AKA Zimbab, Stable Condition
"I will press charge, let the man they deal with the courts. Like I said I have change my life style and I will show them that."

Jules Vasquez
"And so now you feel like how the retaliation might jump off because of this?"

Carlos Abraham AKA Zimbab, Stable Condition
"I have soldiers around, the love is still there and I can't tell them don't do anything, because I am in here. Then none of them will come here to look for me. They will take that matter into their own hands."

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