Thursday, May 08, 2008
Hours before, he posted bail
BEFORE he got shot, Recolly Igoy had just posted bail. The Philippine Phoenix Surety and Insurance Company put up P100,000 to get him freed pending trial.
According to his bondsman, Tito Agujar, the papers were ready as early as Tuesday night but a Carcar Police Station official he could not identify asked that the release be put off until they could verify the authenticity of the release order.
Yesterday morning, police again asked that the release be put off until the bondsman could get the Dry-sealed release order, signed by Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge Ramon Codilla.
“The family was getting agitated but I told them that the release order would eventually get implemented. The next thing I knew was that he got shot,” Agujar said.
The family, Agujar hinted, worried about Igoy’s safety. He said they prepared two vans for security. The plan was to move him from van to van to confuse whoever tried to follow them.
They were not able to carry out the plan, however, as they noticed somebody following them on board a motorcycle right after leaving Carcar City.
Igoy faced a robbery with violence and intimidation of persons case before the RTC. Lawyer Richard Abangan, Officer in Charge of the Carcar City Prosecutor’s Office, recommended bail at P100,000.
He, together with one Nelson Gutierrez, was accused of robbing the Rural Bank of Cebu South on Dr. Jose Rizal St., Poblacion II, Carcar City.
The robbery was foiled, though, after the manager, Webster Morales, snuck out via a backroom door the robbers didn’t know about and ran towards the Carcar City Police Station for help.
Two policemen - SPO1 Meliton Agadier and SPO1 Kenneth Abella - ran to the scene and, with the assistance of other cops who followed them, secured the main door to prevent their escape.
Agadier tried to negotiate their surrender but, instead of dropping their guns, Gutierrez used one bank employee, Kashii Apostol de la Cerna, as human shield and attempted to walk out of the bank.
Agadier shot Igoy while Gutierrez was busy shouting instructions at the policemen to make way.
Startled, de la Cerna ducked, leaving Gutierrez exposed. Agadier shot him too.
Gutierrez tried to fire off a round but the other policemen gunned him down.
Igoy, who got hit thrice, survived with a graze wound in the head, one round lodged in the pelvis and on the rib.
He was brought to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center for treatment. (KNR)
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