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City Shooting Turns Into Murder
posted (April 12, 2019)

North Creek Street resident Joshua Gallego died last night around 7:43. He was shot yesterday afternoon at around 2:40. The report is that Gallego dropped off  his common-law wife and their kids at their home on North Creek Street. He was attempting to leave, and as soon as he reversed the vehicle, three gunmen approached and opened fire on the driver's side door and ran off. Gallego was fighting to stay alive at the KHMH but he didn't make it. We spoke to Gallego's grandmother off camera about his murder.

Voice of Grandmother
"When I reach the hospital I met them outside I ask if I could see Joshua and they said no he is in the theatre so we all had to sit and wait. Then we waited there for about 2 to 3 hours and then the doctor came out and explained the situation to us...he received a shot in the neck that came in through the neck and he received two other shots to the chest and the doctor said that he lost a lot of blood and they don't know if, they are trying their best but they don't know if they will make it through. From the theatre they transfer him to intensive care, they called us they went in there and had a look on him and the monitor was there and my daughter tell me, mom he doesn't look good, the heart is not responding at all and we just got to make up our minds and about half an hour after or less, he died."
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Courtney Weatherburne
"Did he tell you guys if anyone was after him, do you believe he was the target? Do you know if anyone was after him?"

Voice of Grandmother
"Well no he didn't call no one specific, he only mentioned to me personally, he said granny, I really want to leave and go somewhere else because I am not safe in Belize no more so I told him where will you go son, where can you go so I told him you have to leave everything to the good lord and pray for your protection, that is all I told him."

Courtney Weatherburne
"Did he say why he wanted to move away and who he was running away from?"

Voice of Grandmother
"No he didn't say, he didn't call no one name he just say he had a fear that someone wanted to kill him. He didn't like to speak much, whenever he speaks it is because he was under pressure, he don't like to complain but I will remember him as a grandson, obedient whenever I ask him to do something, he always do it so I will always remember him that way."

Gallego leaves 2 young daughters behind. Now Gallego has had run in's with the law. In 2018 he was arraigned for the November 2018 attempted murder of Pen Road resident Stephan Tablada. He was charged with one count of wounding, and one count of use of deadly means of harm in that case. Then back in August 2012, Gallego was charged him with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, and grievous harm for the shooting of Jermaine Flowers. We will keep following this case. 

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