Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Cop shoots suspected burglar dead
A POLICEMAN shot dead a man believed to be a member of Akyat Bahay gang along 3rd St., Guadalupe Heights Village, Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City at 10 p.m. last Sunday.
The man remained unidentified as of yesterday afternoon. He was described to be about 5’4” tall, of medium build, having brown complexion and wearing short pants and a sleeveless shirt.
PO1 Melbin, Jimenez of the Guadalupe Police Station, was reportedly forced to shoot the man after the latter allegedly tried to stab him.
Jimenez and SPO2 Carlito Lirazan went to the village in response to a call for assistance from Jose Yap, who reported to the Guadalupe Police Station about the presence of three men spotted on the roof of his house.
When the operatives arrived in the area, two of the three men quickly jumped from the roof and leapt over a concrete fence, leaving the other man behind.
Knife
Jimenez, Lirazan and village security guard on duty Miguel C. Debuayan cornered the man.
The man allegedly pulled out a knife and tried to stab Lirazan. Lirazan parried the thrust.
The man also tried to stab Jimenez, who then fired a warning shot using his .45 pistol.
Ignoring the warning shot, the man allegedly continued attacking the two policemen, so Jimenez shot him.
The man was hit in the abdomen.
Lirazan and Jimenez brought the man to the Cebu City Medical Center, but he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Autopsy
Insp. Mario Monilar, Homicide Section chief, in an interview, said that based on the information they gathered, the two policemen were just doing their job.
Monilar said they have requested the PNP 7 crime laboratory to perform an autopsy on the body.
In a separate incident, a security guard was found dead inside a makeshift house on Lower La Guerta in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City with two hacked wounds in his forehead.
SPO3 Alex Dacua of the Homicide Section identified the security guard as Abelardo Lequip. Dacua said Lequip was about 54 years old.
Dacua said Lequip’s body was discovered at past 4 p.m. by a 13-year-old boy who went to the makeshift house to claim the umbrella earlier borrowed by the security guard.
Dacua said Lequip’s body was already in the state of rigor mortis.
Dacua said they are looking into the possibility that Lequip was victimized by robbers because his bag had been opened and his pockets looked like they had been searched.
Lequip’s firearm could have also been taken as indicated by an empty holster found near him. (JST)
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