Dec 15, 2020
Micah Baltazar
Another mother is grieving the loss of a teenage son to gun violence tonight. Florentina Baltazar’s son was gunned down on Neal’s Pen Road on Monday night, several minutes after leaving his cousin’s home. Admittedly, Micah Baltazar was no saint, but his mother says that he was simply misunderstood. Police, on the other hand, say that it is all gang-related and that Baltazar was in the wrong neighbourhood when he was preyed upon by his rivals. Here is Isani Cayetano with that story.
Isani Cayetano, Reporting
A nineteen-year-old Belize City resident is dead and his murder on Monday night is being investigated as a gang-related homicide. Micah Baltazar had just left his cousin’s house on Rivero Street and was walking along Neal’s Pen Road around 7:30 p.m. when he was pounced upon with lethal precision. A gunman fired several shots in his direction, leaving him for dead on the sidewalk.