BELIZE CITY – A violent incident initially perceived as an attempted robbery has been reclassified by authorities as a deliberate assassination following a fatal shooting at a local fish market on March 12, 2026. Clinton Pou was killed in the attack, which also left his sister, 27-year-old Kiandra Pou, hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
The assault occurred while the victims were near their mother’s food trailer. According to police reports, assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on the siblings. A senior law enforcement official confirmed that responding officers, already present in the vicinity, immediately pursued the suspects. During the chase, police engaged the perpetrators, wounding one suspect who was subsequently apprehended and transported to a medical facility for treatment.
Eyewitness accounts described scenes of pandemonium as the violence unfolded. One bystander recounted the confusion to local media: “The police were shooting and the civilians were shooting at the same time. It was like a shootout. At least twenty shots were fired… All I did was run into a yard because I saw my friend running.”
Investigators revealed that the firearm used in the attack was potentially discarded in adjacent waters. Dive teams are scheduled to conduct searches to recover the weapon. This episode represents the second known attempt on Clinton Pou’s life, following a previous shooting at his North Front Street residence in 2019 where he sustained injuries but survived.