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Saturday, December 13, 2003
Bike-riding gunmen's death toll nears 100
By Rex C. Otero
TWO more men were felled by bullets, Thursday, in a seeming upsurge of killings by unidentified motorcycle-riding gunmen in Davao City.
Police are looking into talks that both victims were involved in illegal drugs.
Killed in separate incidents were Arnold Montefalcon, 26, a collector of the Community Cooperative in Toril and resident of Bangkas Heights also in Toril, and Samuel Postaņes, 20, a passenger motorcycle (habal-habal) driver and resident of Rosalina Village 3 in Baliok, Toril.
Montefalcon and Postaņes are the 49 and 50th victims of motorcycle-riding gunmen since the upsurge of killings on June 16, this year, and the 83rd and 84th since the start of the year.
First killed was Montefalcon at around 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
Toril police said Montefalcon was on his way home on board a tricycle driven by one James Ambe from Toril poblacion. As the tricycle approached Saint Paul Street, Crossing Bayabas, two men on a motorcycle drove abreast the tricycle, and one of the men shot Montefalcon on the head and back.
Two empty shells from a .45 caliber pistol were found in the crime scene.
Also recovered from Montefalcon were a packet of dried leaves believed to be marijuana and P2,000 in cash.
Postaņes, meanwhile, was driving his passenger motorcycle to ferry a passenger to IWHA Village from Baliok at around 8 p.m. on the same day.
Two men on a motorcycle rode alongside the victim's motorcycle and shot him five times. Postaņes was hit on the head, shoulder and other parts of the body. He was declared dead at the Sanitarium Hospital in Bangkal.
Police only recovered two empty shells of a .45 caliber handgun from the crime scene.
Just last Wednesday, three victims, among them a woman, were killed by a motorcycle-riding gunman in a caswash shop along Cabaguio Avenue in Agdao.
Slain were Rodel Tonguia, owner of Clemens Carwash and resident of Morales Subdivision in Matina, his aide Ariel Rivera alias Eliong, a resident of Ciudad de Esperanza in Buhangin, and Ritsy Limbora of San Agustin in Sta. Maria, Davao del Sur.
In an interview Friday, Chief Insp. Filmore Escobal, Sta. Ana Police Precinct chief, said they have a clear lead on the triple killing.
(December 13, 2003 issue)
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