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Friday, November 18, 2005
Former jailbird makes victim 104
By Jovy S. Taghoy
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
HOODED men believed to be behind the vigilante-style killings in Cebu City gunned down the 104th victim yesterday morning in Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City.
Rogelio E. Ligan, 30, was sitting outside his house in Sitio Huyong-Huyong when a gunman who covered his face with a piece of cloth shot him several times.
Ligan, a robbery suspect who spent time in the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center (BBRC), was taken to the Cebu City Medical Center for gunshot wounds in the chest, abdomen and left hand.
He died minutes later inside the emergency room.
A neighbor who witnessed the killing said the gunman immediately boarded a waiting bicycle driven by a cohort and fled toward Sitio Tinabangay Dos.
The witness had gone out of his house to buy bread when he heard gunshots and then saw the two men.
PO2 Julius Mabunay, one of the responding investigators, said that based on the information they received, Ligan was jailed several times at the city jail for robbery cases.
The Cebu City Police Office under Supt. Melvin Gayotin has been criticized for their failure to solve the rash of killings in the city that started last Dec. 22.
Commission on Human Rights 7 Director Alejandro Alonso, Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines Cebu City chapter and other pro-life advocates have been vocal in their criticisms on the police’s failure to unmask the killers.
Alonso had said it is “very disheartening” to see people killed in the past 11 months and the Cebu City police is yet to arrest the gunmen.
“There appears to be a culture of death in the city. It is already alarming,” Alonso earlier told Sun.Star Cebu.
(November 18, 2005 issue)
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