Thursday, February 19, 2004
Gunshot but no one hit
By Allan I. Varquez
A WHISTLE triggered a shooting involving two rival fraternities in a bara-ngay road in Duljo-Fatima, Cebu City last night.
Luckily, no one from the Tau Gamma Phi and Alpha Kappa Rho (Akrho) was killed or injured. The two groups have been locked in a fierce rivalry for some time now, resulting in death and serious injuries on both sides.
A Tau Gamma official said he was walking with two of his members past 9 p.m. when someone from a group playing chess on the other side of the road whistled the signal of their fraternity.
Gun
Thinking it was one of their members, they crossed the road and approached the people playing chess but to their surprise, an Akrho organizer of the Duljo-Fatima chapter stood up and pointed a gun at them.
The Tau Gamma official, who refused to be named, said he and his companions were 10 meters from the Akrho official, whom he identified only as Sonny, when they stopped upon seeing Sonny holding a gun.
“As we got near, Sonny stepped back and fired his gun twice,” the Tau Gamma members told operatives of the Mobile Patrol Group, adding that they scampered for safety.
They said they know about Sonny because they used to be schoolmates at a local university along N. Bacalso Ave.
In previous clashes between Tau Gamma and Akrho, some innocent civilians lost their lives or were seriously injured. Mark Anthony Enriquez, a college student who
was mistaken for a Tau Gamma member, was shot dead in July last year.
The three Tau Gamma members were taken to the Mambaling police precinct, but they all refused to have the incident recorded.
PO3 Rogelio Cañete Jr. said they received a phone call about a shooting in Duljo-Fatima at 9:05 p.m., but when they reached the place, the gunman could no longer be found.
Cañete said the Akrho organizer could have been using a revolver because did not find an empty shell in the place.
(February 19, 2004 issue)
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