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Teenager Shot In City
posted (December 18, 2014)
This morning in Belize City, a 14 year old was shot in the area of Partridge Street. It happened at around 5:30 am - and the child was injured in the leg. But who would shoot a young man so indiscriminately and why? Well, he is from the often troubled Mayflower street area, and today Monica Bodden asked his mother what's behind it:..

Mother of 14 year old minor
"I usually get up after 4am when my baby would get up crying, but he didn't got up this morning, so I just continue sleeping. My son usually comes home like after 5am in the morning. This morning my door was shut, so I didn't know they would be outside and then like half an hour after some little boys came to bang on my door and shouted for me and I thought it was the police. They woke my baby and so I came out, the little boy said that my son got shot. He told me that he and my older son and the neighbor went to buy tacos. After buying tacos, they walked up Cemetery Road because my son usually helps a man who is building a house. My son went to see of the man had woke up. All of them walking down Cemetery coming down the lane on Banak Street and then they saw a red van following them. They looked back and saw the van coming slowly, so when they look back they saw the van drove into a yard. As they continue to walk up more, the van came out of the yard following them. They saw that when the van reaches up close to them, they saw a man going down for something in his van. When the man went down and came up, they saw a gun and they ran. My son was the only one that got hit on his foot."

The minor is a high school student. So far he has given a statement to police but no one has been arrested.

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