Friday, March 14, 2008
2 port workers suffer in shootings; 1 dies
AN ambulant vendor got shot and killed by an unidentified gunman on M.L. Quezon Blvd. at the back of Carbon Market’s Unit 2 in Barangay Ermita, Cebu City yesterday.
SPO3 Rey Cuyos, who led a team of Homicide Section investigators, identified the victim as Ray G. Miramontes, 32. He lived on Arellano Blvd., Barangay San Roque and sold otap in the port area for a living.
Miramontes died of a gunshot wound in the head.
Cuyos, however, said he was disappointed with the people at the crime scene that refused to cooperate with police investigators.
“Pulos ra sila tanan ambot (All of them said they didn’t know anything),” Cuyos said. He said the area was crowded but no one, so far, claimed to have spotted the gunman.
The attack occurred at 9:30 a.m.
Responding police investigators recovered one empty shell for a caliber .45 gun.
Cuyos said his team still has to find out what Miramontes was doing in the area before the attack.
Miramontes’ sister, who went to the area, told reportedly Cuyos that the victim had been known to use illegal drugs.
Cuyos said, however, that his team has yet to pin down the motive behind the attack.
Dispatched
In a separate incident, a jeepney driver shot a dispatcher in the port area.
Victim Dante D. Echavez, 29, was allegedly shot by Marciano S. Entienza at the corner of Arellano and V. Sotto Sts., Pier 3 past 8 a.m. last Wednesday. Police are verifying reports that Entienza was fed up with Echavez’s alleged extortion activities in the port.
Echavez ended up at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center for treatment of a gunshot wound in the abdomen, while two traffic enforcers who happened to be in the area arrested Entienza.
The authorities confiscated a .357 paltik revolver, 10 live ammunitions and one empty shell from him.
Alfonso P. Cabanig, 65, a vulcanizing shop worker, told Homicide Section investigators he saw Entienza park his jeepney in the area.
Echavez reportedly approached Entienza to say he couldn’t park in the area, which sparked their argument. That’s when Entienza allegedly shot Echavez. (JST)
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