Thursday, November 10, 2005
Cab driver gets hit by bullet intended for cop or robbers
A taxi driver who stopped for a red light got hit in the face during a shootout between a robber and a policeman at the corner of Pelaez and Sanciangko Sts., Cebu City late yesterday afternoon.
Jude Fornolles, 59, survived.
He is being treated at the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC), after a bullet tore through the windshield of his Light taxi, hit his right cheek and ripped out through the left side of his neck.
No one else was injured in the accident that occurred past 5 p.m.
Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau (CIIB) Chief Paul Labra II said he will verify if PO1 Mardi Mañano, who has been assigned at the South Reclamation Project, fired during the shootout.
Mañano was trying to stop two people who allegedly robbed a Labangon-bound jeepnery. The robbers, armed with a knife and a .38 revolver, announced the heist as the jeepney turned right from Junquera to Sanciangko St.
The two grabbed a mobile phone from one of the four passengers, then got off at the corner of Sanciangko and Osmeña Blvd.
As they went inside the Aznar parking lot going back to Pelaez St., Mañano, who was fixing his motorcycle, noticed them.
Because he was suspicious of the two, Mañano followed them. When they reached Pelaez St., Mañano identified himself as a policeman and asked the two to stop, but one of them fired at him. He fired back.
A witness, who was at a KTV bar at the corner of Pelaez and Sanciangko Sts., said she saw people running outside the Aznar parking lot. She then saw a man firing at the two suspects, but added that the bullet hit Fornolles’ taxi instead.
Labra, however, said it is too early to conclude who hit the taxi driver, considering that the suspects also had a gun. (AIV)
(November 10, 2005 issue)
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