Security Guard Shot During Verbal Exchange  

We begin the news tonight with a report of a shooting incident in Orange Walk that has left a security guard severely injured. It happened while Tyron Moralez was on duty in Tower Hill Village on Saturday night. He was walking on the street leading to his jobsite when three people in a pickup truck, whom he recognized, engaged him in a verbal exchange. It ended in Moralez being shot. The bullet struck him in the stomach where it is still lodged. News Five spoke with his brother, Eric Martinez, who said that Moralez will need at least one surgery. While the victim recuperates, the police shared what they have so far on the incident. Here’s News Five’s Marion Ali with that report.

 

Marion Ali, Reporting

Thirty-five-year-old Tyron Moralez was reportedly walking here along this stretch of road in Tower Hill Village, Orange Walk sometime after ten p.m. on Saturday night when he got into a verbal exchange with the occupants of a vehicle. In the process, he was shot. He relayed the incident to his brother, Eric Martinez.

 

Voice of: Eric Martinez, Brother of Shooting Victim

“He personally call me and tell me I get shot and the man said in him that who shoot and cause he see them got a one person. Several of them. I know like it happened in the dark and somebody come out of a bush or a drive by, in a vehicle that drive by, but the man see and recognize her.”

 

Marion Ali

“So they had beef or something?”

 

Voice of: Eric Martinez, Brother of Shooting Victim

“No, no type of beef. No type of beef. Probably. probably it happened fast that some words happen.”

 

 

 

A.C.P. Hilberto Romero says when police arrived at the scene, they found a wounded Moralez suffering from a gunshot to his abdomen.

 

A.C.P. Hilberto Romero, Regional Commander, Eastern Division

 

“Upon arrival, they found Tyron Morales with a gunshot injury to the abdomen. He was taken for treatment. He reported he was walking when a pickup came along and stop near him. He saw three male persons, one who pulled out a firearm and fired a single shot at him.”

 

 

Romero says the police are seeking three suspects in connection with the shooting. While they close in on them, the family of Tyron Moralez says he has a long to go before recovery.

 

Voice of: Eric Martinez, Brother of Shooting Victim

“The man have a big surgery, you know, because they shoot him by abdomen and the man – seems the bullet never pass. So it seems it’s not a big gun, you know, it seems it’s a small gun.”

 

Marion Ali for News Five.