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24 Year Old Man Killed, 61 Year Old Woman Shot
posted (February 24, 2020)
A 33-year-old man is dead and a 61-year-old woman partially paralyzed. That's after a pair of motorcycle riders rained bullets over Rio Bravo Crescent. The man, Ezekiel Usher, was hanging out in front of his neighbour's house. The woman, Joyce Edwards, was riding by in the back seat of her son in law's car. Tonight, he's in the morgue, and she's in the hospital partially paralysed. Here's that story.

On Saturday night at 10:00, the unthinkable happened in Belize City, an innocent woman visiting from out district, a woman whose daughter says she rarely ever leaves her PG home, was shot in the Faber's Road extension area of Belize City.

But she wasn't the intended target. That person is thought to have been 33-year-old Ezekiel "Zeke" Usher a resident of Rio Bravo Crescent. This morning we spoke to Gregory Knox, a close friend of Usher's who says that this loss has taken a lot out of him.

Gregory Knox, Friend of the deceased
"I'm here sorry to hear that my brethren is gone like that you know every morning we get up, I come to meet the man at the table he says top of the morning JoJo I'd say good to see that you're out here early to you know to wash the cars and what's not he was always a positive person like he has his times there where he drinks his rum and thing and he gives us jokes and thing you know it'll be, we'll miss him a lot, we'll miss him a lot, it's rough to say that we lose a brethren so close because we had already lost one here already you know and to say we've lost Ezekiel too it's like that takes a lot off of a lot of us back here. I grew up among men like them and I learned a lot from them you know."

"Watching guys like Ezekiel and you know my brethren Indian who lost his life as well to the gun, you know, it's hurtful because then you never expect guys like those to be like the ones to get gunned down like that and especially home its like you for real people are afraid to walk in their own neighbourhood now because it's like yo Faber's road the become like a war zone."

And on Saturday, the Edwards family hadn't intended to enter a war zone. They came to Belize City to visit an ailing sister.

They had gone to pick up food and were 30 seconds away from returning to their relative's house when they heard a shot ring out. Edward's daughter pulled her mother down but that first shot had already done its damage, hitting the 61 year old in the back of the head.

Two more bullets were fired at the car one on the driver's side the other embedded in the vehicle's back seat.

Today they told 7News that they don't ever want to return to Belize City and that even the thought of being in a car is traumatic.

Joyce Edwards remains at the KHMH. Her condition is stable but she is partially paralyzed. And yet the family believes that God protected them. They ask for prayers as they wait and hope for their mother to heal

Joyce Edwards remains at the KHMH. Her condition is stable but she is partially paralyzed. The family which hails from Forest Home Village near PG denied comment but told us that they believe that God protected them. They ask for prayers as they wait and hope for their mother to heal.

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