Belize City police, besides investigating three separate shootings over this weekend, are also investigating a murder which has taken a son from yet another Yabra mother. They have detained one person for the murder, which occurred on the Southside of the city and are questioning a number of other persons.
out at the corner of Racoon Street Extension and Elston Kerr Street. Some unknown persons passed and fired several shots at them. Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, police responded to shots being fired on Racoon Street extension. There, police said that they observed two male persons suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
The victims were identified as Michael Malic, 15, of a Taylor’s Alley address, and Meldrick Tyrone Flowers, 20, of a Fabers Road address.
They were both transported to Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (MHMH), where Flowers was pronounced dead on arrival and Malic was admitted to ward in a critical condition.
This evening Amandala spoke with Flowers’ mother, Shemalone Middleton, a resident of Fabers Road Extension at the Long Barracks, who said that she does not know who would have wanted to shoot her son, because he did not interfere with anyone.
She was at a friend’s home in the St. Martin De Porres area when she received the news that one of her three sons had been shot. She rushed over to KHMH, but Meldrick was not brought there until an hour and a half later.
She could not look at him for long, but observed that he had bloodstains on the center of his white T-shirt. Later, it appeared that he had been shot five times – once in the neck, once in the temple, twice in the chest and once in the lower stomach. It is probable, she said, that he may have been shot more times, which would be revealed by a more thorough examination.
As far as she knows, her son was heading home when he was shot. He and Malic were reportedly riding double on a bicycle. When they were almost at the corner of the intersection of Racoon and Elston Kerr Streets, they were approached by the gunman, who fired at the two of them. As many as 15 shells were recovered by police. Three of those shots caught Malic, who grew up with her son, in the lower stomach, Shemalone said she was told.
A post-mortem is scheduled to be conducted tomorrow.
Funeral arrangements have not been finalized, Shemalone said. Meldrick Flowers leaves behind three brothers – one on his father’s side, six sisters and his parents.