A Belize City businessman is at the KHMH tonight, recovering from gunshot wounds after a violent armed assault inside his restaurant last night. Armed men stormed into the Jam-Bel Jerk Pit and opened fire. Why? Well that's what police and Alfonso Noble have been trying to find out.
Alfonso Noble Reporting,
28-year-old Betty Rowland says that she was here at Jam-Bel Jerk Pit sometime around 7:45 last night when two men stormed into the establishment and without saying much simply opened fire.
Betty Rowland,
"Around 7:45 we were having normal business hours. We saw about two young males come inside and they said something about nobody move and right away shots started being fired; about three shots."
Without saying or doing anything else the assailants fled and when those inside the restaurant had shaken off some of their fears they looked to see if anyone was injured. 45-year-old Garret Brown the ownere of the restaurant was seated in front of the counter received a gunshot to the left side of the abdomen.
Betty Rowland,
"There was only person that was hurt and that is the proprietor of Jam-Bel."
Rowland says it's the first time something like this has happened and she believes the motive for the attack to be robbery. That being the case she says that this kind of lawlessness always has consequences.
Betty Rowland,
"I would say to them that its not nice to scare and hurt people like this because each of us has someone that we care for."
Brown is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and so too are two other men who were shot at around the same time last night. 28-year-old Preston Reynolds told police that he was standing at the corner of Caesar Ridge Road and Gill Street along with two other men Demus Williams and Carl Reynaud around 7:45 last night. A man dressed in full black wearing a black cap rode up on bicycle, pulled out a handgun and fired several shots at the group. Reynolds was shot to the left leg while Reynaud received a gunshot to his lower back and right leg. Demus escaped unharmed. Police are looking for the assailant.
