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Monday, November 14, 2005
Cops shoot, kill furious laborer
CEBU CITY -- Two policemen from the San Nicolas Police Station shot dead a worker of Pasil Market who ran amok in Barangay Sawang Calero, Cebu City Sunday morning.
The still unidentified man armed himself with a bolo and assaulted anyone who came his way. Three persons were injured.
The worker started going berserk in the area across the San Nicolas Church at 7 a.m.
Senior police officers Gregorio Taneo and Russel Teves learned about the incident and proceeded to the area.
They fired warning shots while asking the man to stop. But the man ignored the warning and headed towards St. Mary's Academy on Tomas Abella St., still furious.
The policemen gave more warnings. But the worker attacked them instead, so they shot him. The man was hit in the left cheek and in the pelvic area.
He died on the spot.
Taneo and Teves won't face an investigation yet, until Homicide police finds probable cause that they committed irregularities while responding to the alarm, Supt. Anthony Obenza, chief of the San Nicolas Police Station, told Sun.Star Cebu Sunday.
Taneo and Teves will continue with their midnight shift at the market area.
Injured were Henry T. Abadilla, 45, a laborer; William B. Tan, 29, a hotel electrician; and Nicanor N. Cabonales, 45, a hospital ambulance driver. They were brought to the Cebu City Medical Center for hack wounds.
As of 5 p.m. Sunday, no one came to claim the man's body at the San Fernando Funeral Homes, where it was brought for autopsy.
The man was described to be in his early 30s, of medium build, 5'5" and with straight hair. He was wearing a pair of denim short pants, orange T-shirt and checkered long sleeves.
From what Taneo and Teves told him, Obenza said there was a "clear and present danger" on the policemen's lives at the time they opened fire.
Taneo and Teves turned over their service firearms to the Homicide Section for tests. (Sun.Star Cebu/Sunnex)
(November 14, 2005 issue)
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