Sunday, August 19, 2007 2 women in San Fernando shooting now safe
TWO women who were wounded in the shooting of two brothers in San Fernando, Cebu last Friday are now out of danger.
Evangeline Llanto, 69, and her housemaid Lolita Villaber, 47, were wounded while Evangeline’s sons Crispin Jr., 34, and Emmanuel, 32, were killed by two masked men on a motorcycle after coming from a court hearing.
Crispin and Emmanuel succumbed to gunshot wounds in the head.
Evangeline and Villaber were taken to the South General Hospital in the neighboring town of Naga to receive treatment for bullet wounds in the thighs.
The shooting took place in the front yard of their residence in Barangay Sangat.
Both are now out of danger and have already talked to police investigators.
Chief Insp. Antonieto Cuyos, San Fernando police chief, admitted that the two survivors may still have difficulty identifying their attackers.
The faces of the two men were concealed by cloth masks and crash helmets.
Cebu Provincial Police Office Director Carmelo Valmoria has already ordered them to check all possible angles in the shooting and to expedite the investigation.
However, Cuyos said they are concentrating on a land dispute as the motive, based on the victims’ background.
He said the victims were not politicians and had no business dealings.
Police will be checking all those involved in the cases the family was facing.
They had just attended a case that involved the cutting of trees from a piece of property that is the subject of the dispute. (MEA)
