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Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Ex-convict gunned down
By Lanie R. Mendoza
BINMALEY -- The municipal police now have a lead in the killing of an ex-convict last August 17 in front a sari-sari store at Barangay San Isidro Sur.
Senior Insp. Faustino Ferrer Jr., municipal police chief, refused to identify the suspect pending the filing of the case and the issuance of a warrant of arrest.
"We are yet establishing an air-tight case against the gunman," he said.
Ferrer identified the victim as Benito Doria, 49, single, jobless and a resident of the barangay.
Initial police investigation disclosed that Doria was drinking alone at the store of Gary Apolinario around 6 p.m. when he was shot several times.
As a result, the victim suffered multiple gunshot wounds on his chest and stomach resorting to his instantaneous death.
Meanwhile, a woman offered P20,000 financial assistance to the wife of a 27-year-old man who was electrocuted last August 16 while cutting the branches of a mango tree that touched the electric wires along a street in Barangay Caloocan Sur.
Mely Melendez made the offer to Gilda Ilumin, wife of victim Jaime Ilumin. All are residents of the same barangay.
Sun.Star failed to establish the relationship of Melendez to Consuelo Laforteza, godmother of Ilumin couple, who asked Jaime to cut the tree's branches.
Christopher Abalos said he witnessed the incident wherein Laforteza called Jaime who was talking with somebody.
"Jammy pibatang mo imay mangga mi (Jammy, please cut our mango tree)," Abalos quoted Laforteza as saying.
Jimmy, moreover, went home and got a bolo.
Abalos said that around 8:30 a.m., he was at the house of his uncle Romeo, a neighbor Laforteza, when the electrocution of Jimmy happened.
(August 20, 2003 issue)
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