BELIZE CITY, Wed. Mar. 4, 2020– A barber of Zericote Street, John Crawford, 52, is in a stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) after he was shot in the cheek. Luckily, the slug exited the side of his neck.

The shooting occurred at about 5:15 p.m. yesterday at a barbershop on Zericote Street. An eyewitness said that while he was in the shop awaiting his turn to get his haircut, a man came to the door, pulled out a gun and fired into the shop.

Crawford reacted quickly, however, and was not fatally shot. As the shooter attempted to fire again, the gun malfunctioned, and that was when a man who was also in the barber shop reacted and hit the arm of the shooter, causing the gun to fall to the floor.

The shooter quickly picked up the gun, however, and ran out of the yard. Crawford was then rushed to the KHMH.

Police do not yet know why an attempt was made to kill the barber.