THREE men died in a shootout on J. Alcantara St. in Barangay Sambag 1, Cebu City on Monday morning, January 21.
Involved in the incident were two friends whose relationship allegedly turned sour because of a woman.
Another information gathered by investigators stated that one of the fatalities, Vanzant Navales, 30, was mad at Michael Bacaltos for selling him a stolen vehicle.
Navales was reportedly apprehended by the Highway Patrol Group for driving a stolen vehicle a few weeks ago.
Navales, a law student, was the person who died on the spot. He was a resident of St. Jude, Barangay Bulacao.
He went to the house of Bacaltos’s father Edwin, 58, and brother Shaun, 23.
The incident happened past 6 a.m. after Navales’s group arrived outside the Bacaltos’s compound.
Edwin and Shaun were rushed to the hospital, where they later died.
Victoriana Nacua, 80, told radio dyHP, that Edwin, her son-in-law, was about to go to the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño when she heard persons arguing outside her house.
She later heard several bursts of gunfire.
When she went out, she saw her grandson Shaun and Edwin lying in their own blood.
Navales’s companions fled the scene in a red car.
Before the incident, Bacaltos said he and Shaun were about to sleep when Navales’s group arrived and harassed them.
Bacaltos confronted Navales and his companions.
Edwin rushed outside the house with a KG9 submachine gun. Navales shot him.
Bacaltos said he grabbed Navales’s 9mm Glock 17 pistol and shot him.
He said he was a close friend of Navales as they both liked cars.
Their relationship, he said, turned sour after Navales suspected him of having an affair with the latter’s former girlfriend from Bacolod City.
Michael left Navales’s group and started his own car business with Shaun.
The rift between Bacaltos and Navales was resurrected last year because of another woman.
Operatives of the Abellana Police Station tried to arrest Navales’s companions, but they failed.
Abellana Police Chief Eduardo Sanchez said Navales’s cohorts were Vincent, Navales’s brother, a certain Danik and three others. Vincent surrendered to the police on Monday night.
Bacaltos may face homicide or murder charges as he admitted killing Navales.
A video sent to SunStar Cebu and Superbalita Cebu showed the rescue attempts on the victims, but the victims were already motionless. (FROM AYB OF SUPERBALITA CEBU/ KAL )