Seventeen-year-old Jordick Thompson, an employee of Bottom $, is dead after being shot in the left ear by an unknown gunman as he was riding his beach cruiser bicycle through the rain last night.
Thompson was leaving the home of his girlfriend in the George Street area when he stopped to buy a fry chicken and a Sprite. At about 10:12 p.m., on Glynn Street, Thompson was heading home in the direction of West Canal, after making the purchase.
Police say, however, that Thompson, while buying the food on George Street, got into a disagreement with another man, who they say is from the “jungle area.” The man warned Thompson that he was going, but would return with a gun.
Police found the teenager slumped over his bicycle on the ground, with the single gunshot wound in the left ear.
Thompson was transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival at 11:30 p.m.
“The last time I saw my son he came to ask me to borrow my bicycle [to go to go visit his girlfriend]. I told him that I was going out, so I didn’t lend him my bike,” said Thompson’s father, Harold Thompson, 38, also of Belize City.
Thompson had managed to borrow someone else’s bike and make his way to his girlfriend’s home a little after 7:00 p.m.
This saddened father of seven children confessed that he had had to bury another son, Devon Darryl Thompson, who was just 18, in 2008 when he was shot to death at the corner of Berkeley Street and Wagner’s Lane; Devon was riding his bicycle heading to the ACC High School fair.
Harold explained that his son Jordick was a sweet-natured boy who mostly hung out with girls. The father said that he would have never expected something like this to happen to his son, because he was not known to have enemies.
“No, he doesn’t have enemies; he just works. He is someone friendly,” Harold said.
Thompson, a resident of Belize City and recent student of the Anglican Cathedral College, had decided to postpone his studies and enter the work field; he was an employee at Bottom $ for almost a year to date.
Police recovered a single 9mm expended shell at the crime scene and at press time tonight, no arrest has been made in connection with this murder.