Sunday, October 07, 2007 Get my son’s killers, ma says By Jovy S. Taghoy Sun.Star Staff Reporter
WATCHING a son die is the hardest thing a mother can take.
Consuelo Rubio Aznar was only a few meters away when two men on a motorcycle pumped bullets into her son, William John Aznar Jr., past 11 p.m. last Thursday.
William, 24, and his companion Lord Stephen Pasco Vasquez, 18, died at the Sacred Heart Hospital after being attacked along Ascension St. in Barangay Sambag I, Cebu City.
Rendon Pellerin, 18, who was also with William, remains confined at the hospital. SPO1 Jay Yballe, Homicide Section chief investigator, said Pellerin underwent surgery for his injuries in the legs and chest.
“Di lalim mawad-an og anak oy (Losing your child is unbearable),” Consuelo said.
William is the younger of the two children of William Sr. and Consuelo. William’s brother, Christopher Jake Aznar, was also 24 when he died in an accidental shooting in January 2003.
Still a student
William was a second year Medical Technology student at the Southwestern University. His father died in 2000.
“Mao na’y akong nasakitan ba, nga kami na lang duha, gikuha pa gyud siya nako. Wala na akong bana, akong kinamaguwangan, karon nawala na sad siya (My son was all I had left, and he was taken from me. My husband and elder son are both gone),” Consuelo said in an interview with Sun.Star Cebu at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes in Nivel Hills, Lahug, Cebu City yesterday.
She described William to be a very loving and sweet son.
Moments before the attack, William asked for P50 to buy food from a convenience store.
When William went out, he reportedly saw a female classmate. He then borrowed his father’s guitar, telling his mother that he wanted to strum some tunes with his friends outside.
Consuelo said she initially hesitated, but gave in.
After watching her favorite television program, Consuelo said she went outside and told William to come home.
William gave the guitar to her and said he would follow soon.
Just as Consuelo left the store, a motorcycle passed by the group. It spun around, stopped in front of William and his friends, and one of the riders opened fire.
“I called out his name. Nakakita tawon ko pagkatumba sa akong anak. Maoy pinakapait (I saw my son fall. That’s what hurts me most),” she said.
Consuelo said the attack happened so fast that she did not get a good look at the gunman or his companion.
Her son, she added, did not belong to any fraternity.
She appealed to the police to exhaust all efforts to arrest the perpetrators not only to give justice to her son and the other victims but to protect others.
“Daghan pa gyud na’y mabiktimang lain og dili madakpan (So many others will suffer unless these people are caught),” Consuelo said. (JST)
