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UPDATE: Child and Adult Killed in Belmopan Shooting

2 Dead in Belmopan Shooting

UPDATE: Child and Adult Killed in Belmopan Shooting

Police Commissioner Chester Williams has confirmed that two people were murdered earlier this afternoon in a shocking shooting in Belmopan City. The incident happened at the Belmopan Market Day Plaza at around three o’clock.

ComPol Williams confirmed that an adult and a child were fatally shot.

The shooter is in police custody. A picture shows him shackled and sitting on the floor of the police station. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the shooter is Haitian-American. The victims are from the Netherlands. Police are investigating the motive.

2 dead in belmopan shooting

Witnesses at the Market Day Plaza following the shooting

A video sent to News Five shows the two children, a girl and a boy, on the ground, bleeding, before they were rushed to the hospital by witnesses.

This is a developing story.

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