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Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Boy, 10, killed in Carmen as pal fiddles with gun
A 10-year-old boy died after he was shot in the head by a 22-year-old neighbor who was allegedly toying with a gun in Barangay Luyang, Carmen town.
Sonny Boy Peñoso, a native of Lipa City, Batangas, underwent surgery at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) last Sunday, but he died late Monday afternoon, Car-men police investigator Renerio Masocol said.
Jessie Etac, single and a resident of the ba-rangay, surrendered to the police and claimed the shooting was accidental.
However, he will be facing a murder charge today since the police doubt his claim.
Masocol quoted witnesses as saying that after Etac brought Peñoso fishing, the two rested outside a neigh-bor’s house.
Etac allegedly first aimed the gun at a girl, who will testify against him, before he rolled the barrel, pointed the gun at Peñoso and fired.
He hit the boy in the right side of his forehead.
Gina, the victim’s mother, was surprised by what Etac did since she thought he and her son were getting along well.
“He (Etac) would send my son to run errands for him. They were close. I don’t want to see his face because of what he did to my son,” she told Sun.Star Cebu in Tagalog.
Gina, who works as a househelp for a family in Danao City, said she would have taken Sonny Boy and her three other children back to Batangas last Monday since she found it hard to provide for them here.
She separated from her husband last year and decided to bring her children to Cebu, where her sister lives.
While she and her eldest child worked, Sonny Boy took care of his two younger siblings.
“He cooked for them and did the laundry. He was a very good son,” Gina said.
Tanod shot
In another incident, Rizalino Tayong, a newly appointed barangay tanod of Barangay Poblacion, Liloan, was shot by a certain Boboy, reportedly a native of Leyte.
According to a report sent to the Cebu Provincial Police Office, witnesses said the suspect and an unidentified companion asked Tayong, who works as a motorcycle-for-hire driver, to drive them to Sitio Cumpar at 7:45 p.m. Sunday.
A passerby later found Tayong with a gunshot wound in the nape.
A police team, headed by SPO2 Felix Noval, brought Tayong to Cortes General Hospital in Mandaue City. He was later transferred to VSMMC.
According to results of the investigation, the suspect, who is believed to be involved in illegal drugs, has “harbored ill feelings” against the victim for his participation in the fight to curb narcotics in their community. (CYR)
(November 2, 2005 issue)
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