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“Tazzy” Taken Out For No Reason
posted (December 4, 2018)
Last night, we told you about the senseless, broad-daylight murder of 43 year-old Arthur Flowers, who is better known in the Belize City Downtown Area as "Tazzy". Well tonight, we know a little bit more about the victim.

Flowers was a car wash man who lived on Handyside Street. He also set up his one-man operation at the Queen Street Intersection, meaning that he was killed right across the street from his house.

As we told you, some time after 3:00 yesterday afternoon, Flowers was sitting on his bucket waiting for business when a gunman took aim and shot him to the right side of the head. The shooter then ran up Daly Street, where he got into a brown Dodge Neon Car, which sped off in the direction of Barrack Road. 

Street sources tell 7News that this shooter may have been circling Handyside Street looking for a specific individual, but that person didn’t show up. The shooter then settled for an alternate target - meaning anyone from the area, and a blameless Flowers became his victim. Today, we spoke with his sister off-camera, and she expressed her family’s outrage at Flower's killing:

Voice of: Greta Jenkins - Sister of the Deceased
"It was just senseless. He wasn’t expecting it. He was just sitting there at his job site, waiting for his jobs as usual. And I guess - I don’t know what’s the reason why they took his life like that but he doesn’t interfere with anybody. He wasn’t a part of any gang. So, we don’t understand why, noh."

"He is a person - he likes to be by himself a lot, but he has few people who he like to mingle with. He just likes to joke around. He’s very loving."

"He washed cars right at the end of the lane there, and part of those times, he was selling used clothes and stuff out there too. So, he tried to do something for himself, not going around robbing or stealing from anybody. [He was] trying to make a living for himself."

"The only question we are asking is why. We are hearing rumors that it was not him; they went for somebody else. If you went for somebody else, like if - if my brother had killed somebody, or was living that gang life, then we expect things like that to happen. But then, why take an innocent just to prove a point? We don’t even understand why he was killed, and that is the most painful part because there is no reason. This is what Belize has come to now, where life has no value, where you can just shoot down a person like a bird. Think about the family members, how it affects us, how it hurts us, because he is not out there troubling anybody."

He leaves behind 2 children: a daughter and a son.

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