Thursday, October 12, 2006
Trail of bloodshed: 3 more slain, 1 wounded
By Syril G. Repe
THREE people were slain in separate incidents Monday, bringing to 16 the number of victims killed and three wounded in the spate of vigilante-style executions in Dumaguete City since Superintendent Dionardo Carlos assumed as police chief last March.
The killings happened just three days after students from Silliman University, mostly from the College of Nursing, marched on the city's streets to denounce the robbery-slaying of senior nursing student Lucia Niña Estacio, 25, of Dipolog City, on October 2 and the rash of unsolved killings in this City of Gentle People.
The latest victims, who were attacked by masked men onboard motorcycles less than six hours of each other, were Educardo Banales, 40, and Fernando Enumerabellon Jr., 29, both married and residents of Sitio Canday-ong, and Angel Emmanuel Campoy, 44, of Canday-ong and David Tucob, a resident of Angatan, Tabuc-tubig.
Banales succumbed to four fatal bullet wounds on the way to Holy Child Hospital. His companion, Enumerabellon, who was hit on the shoulder, is recovering at Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital (NOPH).
Campoy, who sustained seven gunshot wounds, died less than five hours later at Holy Child Hospital while Tucob, shot five times, died on the spot.
Based on police investigation, Banales and Enumerabellon were riding a motorcycle along Perdices street on their way home to Canday-ong around 4:30 p.m. before the incident.
As they passed by the Merlion Travel and Tours, another motorcycle with two riders whose faces were masked with bonnets closed in on them and the back rider fired at Banales who was driving, causing their vehicle to skid.
The back rider fired at the sprawled victim several more times, grazing Enumerabellon on the shoulder, and escaped with his companion.
Investigators recovered a caliber .38 handgun believed to belong to Banales, four spent shells, and the victims' saw, hammer, and other carpentry tools.
Less than six hours later, two men wearing face bonnets attacked Campoy and Tucob who were then reportedly sitting and talking to each other by the roadside near Umbac subdivision in Canday-ong.
City police desk investigator Florito Pajardo said while the two men were talking, the unidentified motorists stopped in front of them and rained them with bullets, hitting Campoy seven times and Tucob five times.
Tucob died instantly. Campos, rushed to Holy Child Hospital, succumbed to his wounds at 3 a.m. the next day.
Investigators recovered 16 spent shells from the crime scene and an empty sachet allegedly of shabu from Tucob's body.
(October 12, 2006 issue)
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