Caught on Camera: Armed Attack at Jane Usher Home

A brazen weekend shooting in Belize City has left a young man injured and his family shaken. It happened Friday night in the Jane Usher area, just as twenty-year-old Alonzo Myers was arriving home. Moments after stepping into his gated yard, two men appeared, one of them opening fire from the street, shooting over the gate. Surveillance footage captures the terrifying moment Myers is hit and falls to the ground, before struggling to get back up and run for cover as the gunmen flee. Tonight, police are investigating what led to this attack and trying to determine who wanted him hurt, and why.

 

ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer

“Police are investigating a shooting incident that resulted in the injury of twenty-year-old Alonso Myers of Belize City. The investigation commenced on Friday twenty-second May at around elven o’clock p.m. when officers on patrol in the Jane Usher Boulevard area was alerted of shots being fired and upon their inquiry they were informed that an injured Mr. Myers was transported to the hospital for medical attention. What the investigation ahs  son far revealed is that Myers entered his yard and was accosted by two male persons, one of who fired several shots, resulting in his injury. No suspect has been identified nor has a motive been established. However, Police has reviewed a number of footage to see how they can advance the investigation.”

 

Police say there is no information to indicate a connection between the Myer’s shooting and the murder of Lamar Garnett on the fifteen of May in the same area.

 

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