Monday, December 03, 2007 2 dawn shootings make Sunday bloody
A MAN who hails from Ozamis City was gunned down by motorcycle-riding men along Archbishop Reyes Ave., Cebu City at dawn yesterday.
Rex Barangan, 21, was standing outside the employees’ gate of a nearby restaurant where his girlfriend works when gunfire rang out.
He was fetching his girlfriend, whose work shift was supposed to end at 12:30 a.m.
SPO4 Alex Dacua of the Homicide Section said a security guard saw a fleeing motorcycle right after the incident but not the faces of the passenger and the driver. No one at the crime scene also managed to check if the motorcycle had a plate number.
Barangan died on the spot. He was found by the homicide investigators and responding policemen from the Mobile Patrol Group and Fuente Osmeña Police Station lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds on his body.
Dacua said the last known address of Barangan in the city was in Barangay Lorega San Miguel.
He said they are still making a background check on Barangan hoping to find leads to help police investigators determine the motive behind the killing.
Vigilante-style
Dacua’s team recovered six empty shells and one deformed slug from a .45 caliber.
When asked if the shooting was done vigilante-style, Dacua said it was difficult to make conclusions because an investigation is still being conducted.
The police, in the meantime, are looking at a grudge as a possible motive behind the shooting.
In a separate incident, a fraternity member was also shot and killed in Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City.
Homicide investigators believe the attack was fraternity-related. It happened at 3:30 a.m. in Sitio Tinabangay II, Barangay Mambaling.
The victim was only identified as a certain Hans, who was believed to be residing in one of the towns in the southwestern part of Cebu, Dacua said.
Drinking
Dacua said Hans was a stowaway and had been living with his fraternity brothers in the city.
Homicide Section investigators learned that Hans was drinking with his fraternity brothers when the perpetrator, armed with a handgun, approached the group and shot the victim twice. He was hit in the back.
Even if he was wounded, Hans managed to run toward an alley but the gunman caught up with him and finished him off with another shot in the head.
He died on the spot.
His body was taken to St. Francis Funeral Homes. (JST)
