Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Polio victim allegedly fired at 2 policemen after confrontation with a lawyer By Jovy S. Taghoy Sun.Star Staff Reporter
APOLIO victim carrying a .38 revolver was hit in an alleged shootout with two responding policemen.
Insp. Rex Campos of the Mobile Patrol Group and PO1 Alouin Suquib confronted Joel Seden-tario, 39, in front of the cockpit arena on Duterte St. in Sitio Banawa, Bara-ngay Guadalupe after receiving an armed person alarm past 5 p.m.
Sedentario, who hails from Danao City, Cebu, was taken to the Cebu City Medical Center.
Sedentario had allegedly pointed a gun earlier at lawyer Rico Tautho. This happened when Taut-ho accosted him about the audio component that he had asked Sedentario to fix.
Tautho told reporters in an interview at the Homicide Section that prior to the incident, he spotted Sedentario waiting for a jeepney on M. Velez St.
Recognizing the suspect as the same person he had asked three months ago to repair his stereo component worth P15,000, he confronted Sedentario about it.
Armed
Tautho invited Seden-tario to accompany him to the Guadalupe Police Station to discuss the matter.
Instead of heeding Tautho’s request, Seden-tario allegedly announced he was armed.
Tautho said he initially ignored Sedentario’s claim, and instead frisked the latter for any weapon.
It was then that Seden-tario pulled out the firearm and pointed it at Tautho.
Tautho scampered to safety.
Sedentario boarded a Labangon-bound jeepney with a gun in hand.
Scared passengers hurriedly got off the jeepney. The driver also fled, leaving Sedentario alone inside the vehicle.
Sedentario disembarked from the jeepney and walked near the gate of the cockpit arena.
Insp. Campos, who heard about the alarm through the police radio, was heading for the area that very moment, as he happened to be patrolling V. Rama Ave.
PO1 Suquib, who was detailed as beat patrol policeman at the nearby intersection of V. Rama Ave. and Banawa Road, also responded to the alarm.
Campos said he twice asked Sedentario to surrender. Sedentario, however, allegedly fired at Campos twice, prompting the police officer to fire back.
Suquib, who saw Sedentario shooting Campos, also fired his gun.
It was not determined who among the two police officers hit Sedentario. Suquib is a rookie policeman on field training program detailed at the Guadalupe Police Station.
At the emergency room of the city hospital, Sedentario told SPO1 Jay Yballe, Homicide Section chief investigator, that he failed to return Tautho’s component because
he went to Leyte.
He said he brought the component to Danao City to fix it and was planning to return it to the lawyer.
As to why he brought a gun, Sedentario told Yballe it was just for self-defense. (JST)
