Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der fol­low­ing the killing of three peo­ple, in­clud­ing a two-year-old child, dur­ing a shoot­ing in Bel­mont on Thurs­day.

In a so­cial me­dia state­ment, Alexan­der said, “PNM con­stituen­cies out of con­trol. Two-year-old among three mur­dered in Bel­mont this morn­ing.” He al­so re­ferred to what he de­scribed as a lack of rep­re­sen­ta­tion, ed­u­ca­tion op­por­tu­ni­ties, skills train­ing, so­cial sup­port and jobs in Bel­mont.

Alexan­der stat­ed, “Bel­mont is a per­fect ex­am­ple of what hap­pens to good peo­ple when bad pol­i­tics pre­vails.” He fur­ther claimed that, “Every PNM com­mu­ni­ty is failed. Every. Sin­gle. One.”