BELIZE CITY, Mon. July 2, 2018– On Thursday night, a 17-year-old minor, Warren Rudon, was walking on Lovely Lane, heading towards the “Jungle,” when a gunman approached him and shot him execution-style.

Rudon was picked up by police (there are at least 3 checkpoints in the general area) and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Emergency Room, where a doctor pronounced him dead on arrival.

Minutes later, some members of his grief-stricken family began to arrive at the KHMH morgue. Rudon’s family could not indicate what circumstances led to the gunning down of their loved one on Lovely Lane, which is quite a distance from his home on Oleander Street, in the St. Martin De Porres area of Lake Independence.

Police have so far not made any arrest in connection with this latest homicide in Belize City.

Today, Monday, Amandala spoke with Ivorine Gomez, 29, one of Rudon’s aunts.

Gomez recalled, “Warren was a very jovial person. He always had us laughing, and he would always tell us about his time in Mango Creek.”

We asked Gomez why he had been living in Mango Creek.

“Warren was living with his dad but he was more, fond of his grandfather,” Gomez told us.

“He always told us about this dory that he had built with his grandfather,” Gomez recalled, “he was always telling us about Mango Creek.”

We then asked Gomez, when was the last time that she had seen Rudon before Thursday night. She said she hadn’t seen her nephew for about a week. “I didn’t see him, because he normally stays at home and comes out at night,” she said.

We then asked Gomez whether she had gathered any more information about what events possibly transpired on Thursday night, and led to the murder of Rudon.

“I don’t know anything about that night,” Gomez replied.

Gomez explained that the area of Lovely Lane was Rudon’s usual hangout spot.

“Apparently, someone sent him to buy, and the gunman came and shot him in the face. And it wasn’t a case of mistaken identity, because the gunman went up to him and shot him in face. We don’t know anything and we haven’t seen any police. No police came to visit us. The only time police came here was to pick up my other nephew, Warren’s cousin,” Gomez said.

“The police came to pick up my nephew for some questioning; that was the only time we saw the police,” she stated.

Gomez said Warren is the second member of their family to die as a result of gun violence. “The first was my brother Daniel Anderson,” mentioned Gomez.

Anderson was shot and killed outside the Bismark Club last October.