Cop hurt in shooting

CEBU, Philippines - A member of the Mandaue City police was shot by an unknown assailant around 2:30 a.m. last Thursday in barangay Calambua, San Remigio town, Cebu.

The victim, PO1 Pasaylo Bandolon, 43, was drinking with his two brothers and went to a dark vacant lot to urinate. When he returned his brothers realized he had been shot and rushed him to the Bogo District Hospital.

According to the said hospital’s guard-on-duty, the victim sustained two gunshot wounds to the left side of the chest, another two in the right side, one in his left arm and another in the abdomen. 

He would later say he was so drunk he did not even notice he had been shot until he realized he was bleeding as he walked back to his brothers.

SPO3 Jose Ancero of the San Remigio police said that there are no witnesses to the shooting since it happened in a dark area and nobody heard the gunshots fired because of the loud disco music in the vicinity.

Upon arrival to the crime scene, the responding officers recovered one empty shell believed to be that of a .45 cal.

The victim was later taken to the Perpetual Succour Hospital in Cebu City and is now in stable condition.

PO2 Renante Marabubol, victim’s fellow policeman in the Opao, Mandaue, police station alert team, said that Bandolon called their office last Wednesday to inform them that he would be absent to attend the burial of his uncle.

Marabubol said that that they knew the victim as a good person who had no enemies. The brothers also alleged that the victim did not encounter a fight during the disco. — Niña G. Sumacot and Karen Grace H. Yasi, Silliman University Masscom intern/BRP   (THE FREEMAN)