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Monday, August 22, 2005
Vendor, 36, is 88th man gunned down
RAMEIRO Aguilar had no idea his visit to his mother last Saturday night would be his last.
Aguilar went home to Sitio Mohon II, Barangay Tisa, Cebu City to help his mother prepare food for the barangay fiesta.
But the 36-year-old fruit vendor was gunned down, vigilante-style, before he could help with the preparations.
Aguilar succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds, mostly in the head, after a lone masked man attacked him at 9:15 p.m. His relatives tried bringing him to the Cebu City Medical Center but he died before reaching it.
His death brought to 88 the number of unsolved summary executions in Cebu City since late December.
These killings were a major factor in the increase of index crimes for the first seven months of this year.
A crime statistics report presented during the Regional Peace and Order Council meeting in Dumaguete last Friday and during the weeklong Annual General Inspection for Central Visayas, showed that the number of index crimes for the region has reached 5,497 cases.
Aguilar, who lived in Sitio Kabanayon, Bulacao, Talisay City, went to Tisa, where he was born, to help his mother prepare food for yesterday’s barangay fiesta in honor of Señor San Roque.
Aguilar was sitting on a gutter in front of his mother’s house, talking to his wife Arlene, when a motorcycle with two men on board stopped near them.
The passenger, who turned out to be the gunman, immediately disembarked from the motorcycle and shot Aguilar several times.
Responding homicide investigators recovered eight empty shells, three deformed slugs and three metal jackets all for caliber .45 pistols.
Arlene was not injured, but her husband took multiple gunshots, causing his death.
Several witnesses said the gunman sported a fatigue jacket and covered his face with cloth. The gunman then went back to the getaway motorcycle, where the driver waited for him.
Initial investigation by the police revealed that Aguilar had no police records or wasn’t jailed for any crime. JST
(August 22, 2005 issue)
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