Daylight Shooting In City, Scares Many, Injures None

For the past three weeks, there have been explosions of violence in Belize City every weekend - resulting in multiple shootings and deaths.

And today, may have witnessed previews of another turbulent weekend when shots rang out around 11:00 am in a congested area.

A man was standing at a bus stop on Mahogany Street in front of St. Luke's Church when a lone gunman jumped the fence for the church and approached him. He put a gun to the man's head, and pulled the trigger twice, but the gun snapped. The would be victim then slapped the gun out of his assailant's hand and ran. The gunman picked up his weapon and and fired two shots shots, but his target received no injury.