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GeneralChurch brother shot dead on Freedom Street
Dwight Warrior, 21, an unemployed resident of Queen Charlotte Street and an active member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, was shot in the back of his head, apparently without any justification.
  
Police say that the shooting incident occurred on Friday, May 13, around 10:00 p.m. Warrior succumbed to his injuries on Saturday at approximately 11:05 p.m. Warrior was inside a blue van along with two other friends on Freedom Street when he was shot.
  
Warrior’s family say that he had gone to that area on foot to drop home his girlfriend of about a year, and that upon walking back toward the Central American Boulevard, he met two of his fellow Christian brothers, who asked him if he needed a lift.
  
The vehicle is registered to the pastor of Warrior’s church, and according to his family, the driver of the van was returning from dropping off other church members. The family says that three men on bicycles circled the van when Warrior got in, and then they returned and opened fire, shooting through the clear glass windows on the side where Warrior was been seated, on the right side. 
 
According to police, however, there was only one gunman on bicycle.
  
The gunman had reportedly parked his bike at the corner of Louise Bevans Street and Freedom Street and opened fire in the direction of the van.
  
One of the bullets struck Warrior in the back of the head, and he was rushed to the hospital, in the same van, where he was immediately admitted in a critical condition.
   
Warrior remained in a comatose state until his death on Saturday night.
   The family is left in mourning. Anna Warrior told us that she has not been able to eat ever since she learnt of her son’s shooting. She said that she has learnt that apparently, her son was shot because of mistaken identity and this has caused her even more pain.
  
“Well, my son was at home whole day the Friday, and then he dropped his aunty the evening and he dropped his girlfriend later on in the night, and coming back on the way, his church bus picked up him and they said that right so, they saw three gunman pass the van first, and circled back,” said Anna.
    
Anna told us, “They started to let go bullets round and round the van. By the time Warrior told them duck, the bullet had already caught him in the head, so what his friends did they just hurried and rushed him to the hospital.”
  
According to Anna, the doctor at the hospital met with her and explained that Warrior had only a fifty-fifty chance of survival.
  
Anna continued by telling us, “Well to tell you the God’s truth right now, the way how I feel so angry, the way how it makes me feel so angry, it feels like they just took a bullet and ripped it right through me, because that was my first son. 
  
“To have your first child, your eldest son taken away from you like that without even talking to him for the last time, that really hurts, “mien”. That would hurt anybody; I don’t know how they can live with themselves like that.
  
“I just have to be strong, that is the great picture …Well to tell you the God’s truth, the only thing that I will hope for is justice for my son, because he is not a troublemaker, his life cannot go just like that, there has to be someone responsible for him. 
  
“It hurts me, yes, that he is gone, and I loved him, I just have to be strong and try to get over it, but it would be really hard so.”
 
 Police have not arrested anyone in connection to this homicide, which makes it #50 for this year and #8 for the month of May. Forty of those homicides were documented for the Belize District itself, and of that number, thirty-seven were from Belize City.

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