Local News

An early morning shooting incident today has left a Belize City youth hospitalized.  Twenty three year old Michael Alexander Young was shot in the upper left side of his back around six thirty this morning near McKay Boulevard and Mahogany Street. According to police reports, Young was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he is listed in a critical but stable condition. Police say they have recovered 16 expended nine millimeter shells from the scene of the shooting. No one has been detained so far and police investigations continue.