9 yr. old murdered inside home

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Police still have not charged anyone with the senseless New Year’s Eve slaying of 9 year old Aaron Pope.

The child was shot dead in his sleep at 25 George Street in Belize City. He was in his bed along with his mother, Michelle Myvett, when a man stomped down their front door and began to shoot in the house. Two of the bullets penetrated little Aaron’s bedroom wall and mattress and one struck his head. He never woke up.

The bullet entered from the right temple and moved to the other side of his head by the time the cat-scan was conducted. His mother, awakened by the gunshots and by her daughter screaming that she had just gotten shot, jumped up and pulled little Aaron under the bed, but he was already shot.  His sister, Kadesha Saldano, 17, who was in another bed, was also hit by a bullet in her right elbow.

The two were Myvett’s only children. The mother narrowly escaped gunshots.  She told reporters following the shooting that she faces her loss with faith in God and with hope that her little boy’s killer will be apprehended and brought to justice. The child’s school teacher said that her son used to help her on the computer.

Police are still investigating and Information is that the shooter, identified so far as a dark-skinned male, ran up the stairs of Myvett’s home and kicked in the front door, breaking a latch that kept it fastened at the bottom. The attack is one that has gripped the Myvett family because they are not affiliated with any street gangs and have no qualms with anyone. At best, police believe that the shooter went to the wrong home and opened fire. The shooting is believed to be in retaliation to one that occurred about an hour earlier at the Palm Island nightclub, when Dale Tillett, 19, and Brandon Tillett, 25 were shot during an altercation that broke out among a group of men.

No one has been charged with the murder of Aaron Pope, whose father, Elbert Pope, has also been shot dead on Father’s Day of 2010.

Aaron Pope, who was described as a talkative student at Grace Primary, lamented when his classmate, Janay Moguel, was shot in early February of 2010 as she and her grandfather walked from a shop across the Central American Boulevard to their house.  She remains paralysed by the bullet that struck her in the shoulder blade. Now he is the latest child victim of street warfare and the fourth child since 2010 when Marquis Mahler was also shot dead in his yard on Faber’s Road. After him Little Eyanie Nunez, was similarly shot dead as she slept in her house. In all cases, no one was arrested and charged with the killings of these children.

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