May 20, 2021 Stephan Castillo Another Belize City youth has lost his life in Belize City. While police have not issued an official statement, area residents suspect it was a gang hit that may be connected to another recent killing. News Five’s Andrea Polanco was on the scene today.
Andrea Polanco, Reporting Nineteen-year-old Stephan Castillo was shot dead between two vehicles inside the yard of a mechanic and carwash business on Faber’s Road Extension in Belize City. The deadly shooting occurred despite a police sub-station just down the street. Residents in the area say that after one-thirty this afternoon they heard more than a dozen gunshots ring out in the neighborhood. Some saw a vehicle drive by slowly in front of the carwash but then return. It was from inside that vehicle they claim the shooter or shooters fired the fatal shots.