Avondale "Hogbone" Trumbach
Belize City, April 12, 2011
When 29 year old well-known George Street gang associate, Avondale Fuller-Trumbach, was gunned down in broad daylight and amidst a huge crowd in one of the busiest areas of the city, it was clear that the gang warfare in the old capital had reached a new, deadly level.
It didn't matter to the gunmen that Conch Shell Bay, the popular fish market on Vernon Street, was filled, as it normally is on a weekday afternoon, with onlookers and regular pedestrians. That didn't stop the attack, and when armed men surfaced aiming their weapons at the vehicle Trumbach was sitting in, shots were fired and the innocent crowd scattered in terror.
Witnesses of the attack have told the BELIZE TIMES that they heard at least ten gunshots.
When the smoke cleared, Trumbach lay inside his vehicle with gunshot wounds to his body. Medical authorities rushed to the scene, and transported the victim to the hospital, but he didn't survive.
This latest killing is believed to be the latest in a series of acts of gang warfare in the old capital.
On Saturday night, Enrique Trapp was killed by a gunman as he hung out with friends through Taylor's Alley. Less than three hours later, taxi driver Kirk Belisle was found dead on La Croix Boulevard. Belisle was heading home when his vehicle shut down in front of a Church. As he tried to figure out the problem, with the aid of neighbors, a vehicle with gunmen inside drove past. Shots were fired at the group, and Belisle was shot dead.
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Source: The Belize Times
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