Mayflower grenade attack

The Mayflower grenade attack was an allegedly gang-related attack perpetrated in the evening of 18 May 2008 in Mayflower Street in Southside Belize City. A lone cyclist lobbed a live Czechoslovakian M40 grenade at a group of people who were socialising streetside, leaving sixteen year old Darren Trapp fatally injured, and a further eleven others injured. Two suspects were arrested, charged, and tried for the attack, but were subsequently acquitted. The attack is deemed the first mass casualty event via explosive device in the Belize's history, and is thought to have prompted further grenade attacks in Southside Belize City.