Mother Says Police Ignoring Son’s Near‑Fatal Pursuit

Tonight, a Belize City mother is terrified that her seventeen‑year‑old son could be the next victim of neighborhood violence and she says police aren’t helping. Surveillance video from West Collet Canal shows the teen running for his life on Monday night as two men and a woman jumped out of a vehicle and chased him down. His mother says the attack is tied to an ongoing rivalry in the area, and despite filing a report and trying to take the matter to court, she’s been met with delays and dead ends. Now she’s demanding answers, fearing the next call she gets may be the one no parent ever wants to receive.

 

Voice of: Mother of Victim

“Monday night my son went to buy something to eat. He does not stay with me. He stays with a relative. But, he went out to buy something to eat. He said, he would ride on the bike quick and come back. When he came back, he said mom I know the vehicle because I saw them in the vehicle earlier and from he saw the vehicle he knew it was them in it. He said he knew that once they only see he one that is when they would try that stupidness. He said, mom I was on my bicycle but it was keeping me back. So, he jumped off the bike. He said mom, I don’t have thirteen gold medals for nothing. He said, mom I ran and while he ran his phone dropped. They took his phone and bicycle, the video show everything, and they dash it in the kennel.  Tuesday when I got to hear all of this and come out, I said I would go deal with it at station and I gone. They said they can’t find who the deal with this, who the do the case. I ask my son, you all know the name of the officer that took the report. They said they did not remember. But, they said they signed it, so police checked it. That day they said I have to come back on Thursday because the officer is off. So, I said ok, no problem. Thursday I went back. It was the same story again. They said come back four o’clock when the officer is on. I went back four thirty. I reach in there. Normally when you go in a station and you need assistance the police come to you. The police sat down there behind the desk like a big log, he cant move. But my son said, mom he was one of them there the night when we did the report. Honestly when I get up the morning and I check my phone, and I see all the messages and calls I stand up and I cry. I don’t know how I did not drop down. I said, look at this. I would have gotten up to a bad news that they cant find my son. Just the feeling that went through me. I said, we would have had to search for my child right now.”

 

The Belize Police Department confirmed with News Five that an investigation into the incident is currently ongoing.

 

 

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