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Sunday, September 23, 2007
2 dead, 4 hurt in just 4 hours
CEBU CITY – Men on motorcycles fired at two groups in two attacks just four hours apart in Cebu City, killing two and hurting four others.
In both cases, the gunmen got away.
Four men were drinking on the sidewalk at 11:40 p.m. last Friday when two men on a blue Kawasaki Aura motorcycle stopped in front of them.
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The back-rider fired at them, catching them off-guard, before fleeing towards D. Jakosalem St. They attacked at the corner of D. Jakosalem and Sanciangko Sts. in Barangay Parian.
The victims were identified as Angelito B. Reyes Sr., 42; Benjamin P. Dilao, 41; Jonathan B. Tabada, 26, a first year associate in computer technology student; and Eugene R. Presbetiro, 37, who paints signs for a living.
Reyes was hit in the left thigh, left upper back and right arm. He was taken to the Visayas Community Hospital.
Dilao, who suffered a gunshot wound in the chin, was brought to the Cebu City Medical Center, while Tabada and Presbetiro both landed at Chong Hua Hospital.
Tabada got shot in the right arm.
Presbetiro, who was hit in the chest, the bullet exiting his back, was declared dead by attending physician James Guar-dario several hours later.
Responding Scene of the Crime Operations (Soco) personnel, Parian policemen led by Inspector Bernardo Villarin, and Homicide Section investigators led by Senior Police Officer 2 Rey Cuyos recovered seven empty .45 pistol bullet shells.
In a telephone interview with Sun.Star Cebu, Cuyos said among the motives they are looking into is gang conflict.
He said initial information they gathered showed that Reyes’s son, Angelito Jr., is a former Crips gang member.
A sketch the police came up with using the testimonies of some witnesses showed the gunman to be around 29 years old, 5’9”, of medium build, with thick eyebrows. He jeans and a red shirt.
At 3:15 a.m. yesterday, two teenagers were also shot, with one of them dying of a gunshot wound in the neck before he could reach the hospital.
Richard T. Jardin, 17, was a Fuente Osmeña dispatcher. Earl Handin, 19, of Barangay Punta Princesa, who was just skateboarding, survived a gunshot wound to the forehead.
Cuyos and his team learned that Handin and a friend had just crossed the street from a convenient store at the corner of Juana Osmena St. and Gen. Maxilom Ave. in Barangay Camputhaw when two motorcycle-riding men fired at them.
Jardin, who happened to be close by, was not spared.
Jardin and Handin were rushed to Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, but Jardin did not make it alive.
Cuyos said they still need to establish the motive for that attack. (Jovy S. Taghoy of Sun.Star Cebu)For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star General Santos. (September 23, 2007 issue)
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