Three persons are presently in the Intensive Care Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH), where they are being treated after two were shot and the other stabbed in the chest.

A bullet grazed the right temple of Rakeem Vernon, 20, of Seagull Street, Belize City, while Eric Wills, 20, of North Creek, Belize City, was shot in the right buttock, left hip and sacral region (tail bone); Thomas Ferguson, 44, of Arlington Drive, was stabbed in the chest in a separate incident.

The shootings occurred at about 9:00 Friday night in a yard on North Creek Road in Belize City, while the stabbing occurred at about 12:30 Saturday morning on Arlington Drive.

The victims have all been declared to be in serious but stable condition at the KHMH.

Police said that when they responded to a report of a stabbing at a house on Arlington Drive, they saw Thomas Ferguson suffering from a stab wound in the center of the chest. He was immediately rushed to the KHMH.

According to information gathered by police, shortly before Ferguson was stabbed, he became involved in an altercation with his nephew, 37, who went into the kitchen, got a butcher knife and stabbed Ferguson. The nephew was arrested.

Vernon and Wills, on the other hand, were shot in the back of a yard at the corner of North Creek and Central American Boulevard by unknown persons.

People in the area took them to the KHMH.

No one has been arrested as yet.

There was an additional shooting incident over the weekend in which the gunman missed his target entirely, and in which, fortunately, no one was hurt.

Beverly Smith of Police Street told police that about 6:30 Friday morning, she was at home when she heard a loud bang, which she believed to be a gunshot. She then saw that there was a hole in her roof and ceiling.

Police went to the scene, and an investigation revealed that a gunman, who was in the area of Linda Vista Street, fired a shot at another man, who was on Police Street. He missed, but hit Smith’s house.