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Sunday, July 10, 2005
67th victim falls in shooting
By Jovy S. Taghoy
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
Two masked men gunned down a suspected criminal Friday night, in what could be another case of a vigilante-style killing in Cebu City.
Panga Larrobis Yu, 31, of Sitio Riverside, Barangay Lorega, was hit in the head and body and died on the spot.
The attack took place at 7:55 p.m. on D. Jakosalem St., Barangay Kamagayan.
Yu is a suspected robber who spent time at the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center. He was reportedly released from prison last May 5.
Two men on board a blue Aura motorcycle had tailed Yu as he walked down the street.
The driver was reportedly wearing a helmet, while his passenger covered his face with a scarf and wore sunglasses.
Yu tried to walk faster after noticing he was being followed. But the passenger got off, approached Yu and shot him at close range several times.
The man went back to the motorcycle and the two fled uptown.
Yu’s body was taken to St. Francis Funeral Homes for an autopsy.
Personnel from the Scene of the Crime Operations recovered eight empty shells from a .45 pistol.
Yu’s siblings, Rogelio and Virginia, told homicide investigators that about three hours before the attack, two men went to Barangay Lorega and asked around for where Yu was.
Yu was shot while police continued facing a blank wall in the investigation of the series of vigilante-style killings in the city.
Yu was the 67th to die in the attacks since last Dec. 22.
Most of the victims were suspected criminals or had criminal records. All of the attacks were unprovoked, and nearly all of the victims carried no weapons. Some were attacked in their homes, while they slept.
Among those who died are known drug suspects Hector “Yaya” Salcedo and Rosamun de los Santos, and robbery suspect Jimmy Duarte.
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, like Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, has come under attack for seemingly encouraging extra-legal means to rid the city of suspected criminals.
The assaults began the day after he offered a reward to anyone who could “neutralize or permanently disable” felons.
Local police officials, unable to solve any of the violent cases so far, have also lamented the lack of cooperation from the victims’ families or witnesses. They also reported a drop in petty crime.
(July 10, 2005 issue)
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