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Shooting on Ben Bow Street

CrimeShooting on Ben Bow Street

Three men are alive after a gunman fired at them at about 7:00 Saturday evening on Ben Bow Street. One victim suffered a gunshot injury to his right arm, but the other two men were unhurt.

Javan Clare 19, a student of Iguana Street, Belize City, told police that at about 7:00 Saturday evening, he and two of his friends were transporting two sound system speakers to Ben Bow Street on a carrier cycle to play for a party at the preschool in the area, when a man on a bicycle rode up behind them and fired at them. He then escaped out of the area.

The three men scrambled for cover, but Clare was hit by one of the bullets.

Police searched for the gunman, but couldn’t find him.

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