And after the smoke had cleared on New Road, the Minister of Home Affairs paid the family a visit on Sunday evening. He said he felt compelled to because of the callous way Dwayne had been targetted:
Hon. Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"Today I felt compelled to come and spend some time with Dwayne's family and of course and as you would imagine, it was very emotional, painful, it is a shooting that has ripped an entire community, an entire nation apart because everybody knew that Ms Rhondine had done everything in her power to raise her son in the most respectable way, an honorable young man, by all accounts, a lovable young boy, third former, my brother's student at St John's and it's just such a very cold incident and of course the entire country is praying, I am praying, the community is praying with this family, for Dwayne's recovery at this time. Of course as the Minister of Police, I take it on my own shoulders, every single life loss, every child's life taken that has been shot, it weighs down on me and so I felt compelled to come and share my feelings with the family and to pray with them, very important and so that is why I'm here today."
And Dwayne makes eight minors murdered this year. Minister Musa weighed in on this chilling statistic and the culture of the young murderers who take the lives of children.
Hon. Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"That's a very loud statement, child after child, it speaks volumes to where we are as a society and in particular where we are in Belize City. Growing up, I can recall when I was about 16-years-old, there were only about 3-4 gangs in our city, fast forward 30 years later and we have over 20 gangs in our city who have been wreaking havoc, who have been recruiting young men who don't know any better, but who don't have the love of their family and they're recruited by these gang members. Back in the day, there was a certain respect that gang leaders have, they would never interfere with young people but now they're taking advantage of them, recruiting them, to carry out these acts and then indiscriminately, this is an innocent young man who knew nothing about gang life, who grew up right here playing basketball, having dreams of going to UCLA and becoming a professional basketball player, his whole dreams, his whole future has been deferred just because there is a rivalry between two or three areas, and they don't know why they're rivaling, they're just born into it, they're born into an area to hate the other area, teens killing teens not even knowing the other teen's name that they're killing, they don't even k now each other, and they don't know why they're killing. But whoever is putting the guns in these young men's hand and controlling them, those are the real murderers because they're taking the lives of those shooters and the victims out here."
"George Price said that nation building is for giants well nation repairing is Herculean, it's going to take Herculean effort on the part of everybody from individuals who witness a crime to come and testify, something as basic as that, to judges, when a person is charged under the being a gang members law, look at what the law says, it says sentencing them for years in jail, not releasing them back because they are terrorizing society."
