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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Another suspect summarily executed
A suspected thief was gunned down vigilante-style last Sunday night in Guadalupe Village, Barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu City.
Roselito D. Cabingatan alias Brian, 25, of Sitio Dam in neigboring Bara-ngay Buhisan, died on the spot due to multiple gunshot wounds in his body.
The incident occurred at 8 p.m. while Cabi-ngatan and Marlon T. Caburnay, 37, a councilman of Toong, a mountain barangay in Cebu City, were sitting on a wooden bench along Pisces St.
Two men on a motorbike stopped in front of them. The man riding at the back got off and shot Cabingatan several times.
When Cabingatan fell, the driver also disembarked from the motorcycle and joined his companion in shooting the victim.
Caburnay told the responding homicide investigators led by SPO1 Jay Yballe that both the gunmen did not conceal their faces with masks.
The first gunman was described as medium built, 5’4" tall and wearing a dark-colored jacket.
Notoriety
Yballe’s team and personnel from the Scene of the Crime Operations (Soco) recovered 11 empty shells and one slug of .45 pistol and one fragment of a metal jacket.
Yballe told Sun.Star Cebu yesterday that Cabingatan had gained notoriety in the area for allegedly stealing electric cables as a member of an Akyat-Bahay Gang and also engaged in the stealing of motorcycles from habal-habal drivers.
Sun.Star Cebu checked with the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center, but a prison staff said Cabingatan had not been jailed.
Cabingatan’s body was taken to Cebu Rolling Hills Memorial Chapel for autopsy.
Warrants
Meanwhile, an alleged jeepney robber surrendered to the authority yesterday morning for fear of being killed by the vigilantes.
Manolo “Jun-Jun Cańa” Salvador, 27, of Palma St., Barangay San Roque gave himself up to Barangay chief Rogelio Ruizo at 11 a.m. yesterday.
Salvador has two standing warrants for robbery cases issued by the regional trial courts.
He was turned over to the Waterfront Police Station and told Supt. Mariano Batiancela Jr., police station chief that he’d rather surrender than be killed by vigilantes.
He will be taken to the court today for the issuance of a commitment order against him.
In another development, operatives from the Regional Intelligence Office 7 arrested last Saturday a 46-year-old man wanted for murder.
Dominador Geyrozaga Jr. was arrested in Maco Gallera, Purok 4, Bara-ngay Hijomaco, Compos-tela Valley, Comval Province in Southeastern Mindanao.
The operatives arrested Geyrozaga through a warrant of arrest issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Maximo Perez.
Geyrozaga has a standing cash reward of P75,000 for his arrest for killing a certain Warren Lanutan in Argao town, Cebu. (JST)
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