2 days ago, we told you about 22 year-old Oswald Warrior. He's the Carmelita Villager who was shot in Belize City 14 days ago, and after clinging to life for over a week at the KHMH, he passed away on Monday.
He was in the Back-A-Town area of the City, which is gang affiliated, when he was shot in the head. He was walking on Sarstoon Street when he was approached by an unknown gunman, who fired a single shot.
Initial information was that he was shot in the cheek, but his family members told us today that he was actually shot in the back of the head, and the bullet exited his cheek. And, it appears that he was misdiagnosed by the doctor who was on-duty the day he was rushed to the KHMH. His sister told us today that their grief is compounded by the fact that they were misled into thinking that he had a bullet lodged in the back of his neck.
She granted us an off-camera interview explaining the little they knew about his shooting, and his subsequent time spent hospitalized before he passed away:
Voice of: Sister
"We dont know much about the incident, just that he was shot when he went in the area. We don't know why he was shot. HE went into the hospital on the 5th. He went there and I identified him as my younger brother. He was 22. When the doctor did the x-ray, they told us the bullet went though his face, at the back of his skull and through the back of his neck. What we are trying to find out why the doctor who did the post-mortem yesterday told us that there was a bullet in his neck and when we did the post-mortem, no bullet was in him. They shot him behind his head and the bullet came out though his nose. What we are trying to do is find out more why the doctor told us he died because he swallows a bone from his face and the bone cut his airway, that's why he died and when we did the post-mortem we found out that he died because he wasn't eating and he caught an ulcer and the ulcer burst in him and that is how he died."
"We are trying to cope because like I said the Friday we was up. The Friday he woke up, Saturday he was up and spoke to us, only for them to call us and tell us that he will not make it because he swallow a bone and he couldn't breathe. That was not the case."
Reporter
"Have you all been able to questioned this doctor who gave this mis-diagnosis?"
Voice of: Sister
"No. the doctor isn't stationed here, he just come to do normal routine in the morning and then he goes. Then every time we asked about him, they say he is improving. When we look at it nothing they told us is true. We lived here at Yabra. We moved from Carmelita. We are originally from village, but we moved back here since I was 9 years old."
Reporter
"You guys never lived in that area?"
Voice of: Sister
"No we never lived in that area. He knows people from Carmelita who lived in that area."
Reporter
"Do you know what he was doing in that part of the city?"
Voice of: Sister
"No. I can assume he knows someone from Carmelita who he went to visit there."
Reporter
"Does he live here in Yabra with you guys?"
Voice of: Sister
"No, he lives at Carmelita. He only comes to sleep here because my mom is still here."
Reporter
"Did he have any friends or associates you guys didn't approved of - that you felt were dangerous people who could get him hurt?"
Voice of: Sister
"No. All he does is work, because he is a construction worker like my father. When he got shot, he just came from Crooked Tree where he was doing construction work."
Reporter
"You all think he went to visit friends he knows from Carmelita in that baka-town area?"
Voice of: Sister
"Yes."
Oswald Warrior's sister told us that he is the second sibling that her family has lost to gun violence. Back in May of 2011, his older brother, Dwight Warrior, was shot and killed at the corner of Freedom Street and Central American Boulevard.
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