Teenager survives Belize City shooting

Posted: Friday, July 30, 2021. 7:08 am CST.

By Aaron Humes: Police say a teenager was lay waited on Neal Pen Road Extension off Central American Boulevard Thursday night.

Jaheed Baptist,19, was walking up to the Boulevard just after eight when he passed three men under a tree next to the basketball court.

One of them shot him in the right upper back with a hidden firearm and he ran and fell on the ground.

Baptist is stable at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, while police continue to look for his attackers.

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