Thursday, August 14, 2003
Passenger shot in face in jeep holdup
TEODOCIO Enceledo, 45, was on his way to catch a boat to Leyte. Instead he caught a bullet in his cheek.
Enceledo was one of nine passengers riding a jeepney that four men robbed at 7:55 last night on M. Logarta St., Subangdaku, Mandaue City, in that stretch between the bus terminal and Makro supermarket.
Enceledo told Sun.Star that one of the robbers poked a knife at his face and asked for his cash. Rattled, Enceledo tossed aside his bag full of clothes.
One of the other robbers shot him in the face.
“Nalipong ko (I felt dizzy),” Enceledo said.
For their troubles, the robbers got away with at least P8,000 cash, plus phones and clothes.
“They were described as thin, tall and long-haired,” SPO1 Dante Lopez of the Mandaue City Police Office’s Station 2 said in a phone interview. “They were probably addicts.”
As of 10 last night, the bullet had yet to be removed from Enceledo’s right cheekbone, and police investigators were still trying to get all the victims’ accounts.
Like Enceledo, all the victims wanted was a quiet trip home.
Jeepney driver Felix Q. Nuñez, 50, of Marigondon, Lapu-Lapu lost P70 in fares. Passengers Charito Amores, 40, of Tisa, Cebu City and Jocelyn C. Pasigna, 44, of Lorega-San Miguel, Cebu City both lost their bags.
In Amores’ case, that bag contained two mobile phones, P7,000 cash, a wristwatch, assorted ID and phone cards and cosmetics. Pasigna, a school security guard, lost two shirts, P1,000 cash, an extra uniform and her badge.
Nuñez drove Enceledo to the Mandaue City District Hospital, where an X-ray revealed the bullet was stuck in Enceledo’s cheekbone, close to his eye. Still conscious, Enceledo chose to go home to get some cash, but safely returned to the hospital for treatment. |
