Sunday, October 12, 2008 Student shot, killed 5 days before graduation
A GRADUATING nautical student was shot dead at the corner of P. Gullas and Mabini Sts. in Barangay Parian, Cebu City past Friday midnight.
Junel Good Sumayang, 24, of Campusong, Borbon, Cebu who temporarily lived in Barangay Kasambagan, Cebu City, was declared dead on arrival at the Cebu City Medical Center from a gunshot in the chest.
Sumayang’s companion Mizraim Señor Olofernez Jr., 22, who is also a graduating nautical student, survived unscathed.
Homicide investigators will coordinate with the Land Transportation Office (LTO) 7 tomorrow so they can trace the plate number of the car the gunman used.
Sumayang was supposed to graduate this Wednesday.
Senior Insp. Mario Monilar, Homicide Section chief, told Sun.Star Cebu yesterday that a team of homicide investigators are working on identifying the gunman so charges could be filed against him.
Sumayang and Olofernez were reportedly on their way home around 12:30 a.m. when a gray car stopped near them. The driver then alighted from the car and shot the two students.
Sumayang and Olofernez fled but the gunman continued shooting at them.
Sumayang was some five meters away when he got hit in the chest.
Olofernez managed to run towards the boarding house of his friends who rushed Sumayang to the city hospital.
A witness told investigators led by SPO1 Rogelio Nedamo that the car boarded by the gunman sped towards Mabini St.
Before the incident, around 5:30 p.m., Sumayang and his group reportedly fought with another group at a nearby table inside a KTV bar. But that was quickly patched up.
At 7 p.m., Sumayang left the bar and went to Logarta St., but he returned and got into trouble again.
Monilar said they will look into this.
Cursed
In a separate incident, 43-year-old Ramil A. Bolo, a resident of Gorordo Ave., Barangay Kamputhaw, landed at the city hospital for a gunshot wound in the stomach.
One of three men on board a motorcycle allegedly shot him around 4 a.m. yesterday.
Bolo told homicide investigators that he and his three friends were drinking along the road when the three men on a motorcycle arrived.
The motorcycle reportedly had “a very noisy muffler,” and one of the passengers shouted the “F” word. This prompted Bolo to reprimand them.
The motorcycle sped away but moments later, it came back. One of the passengers then fired at Bolo. (JTG)
