Dispatcher shot, teenager stabbed

CEBU, Philippines - A public utility jeepney dispatcher was injured after he was shot by an unidentified man in Leon Kilat Street, Barangay Pahina-Central, Cebu City at past 7 p.m. last Saturday.

Armando Flores, 40, landed at the hospital after sustaining a gunshot wound on the right side of his body. Police said the suspect has reportedly been in jail for theft cases.

Flores, a resident of Barangay Pasil, told police that he and his live-in-partner Normie Peralta were walking on their way to Colon St. when a man appeared and suddenly shot him twice.

The victim ran away and boarded a trisikad for Cebu City Medical Center, where he was treated.

Police responded to the area but failed to locate the suspect, who also ran towards Colon St. and disappeared. Recovered were two empty shells of a caliber .45 pistol from the crime scene.

PO1 Michael Angelo Singson of the Homicide Section said they are still trying to determine the motive behind the attack as the victim himself claimed that he has no known enemy.

Singson, however, said the victim has been jailed for a theft case, which could be one of the reasons that he was attacked, as someone might be harboring a grudge against him.

An hour before this incident, a teenage woman was also injured after she was stabbed by her neighbor in sitio Baho, Barangay Calamba.

Windy Cañeda, 18, was stabbed on her back by Anna Marie Perez, 22, who got irked after she was accused of stealing the victim’s clothes.

Cañeda, who lives with his live-in-partner in Quijano Compound, told the police that she went to Perez’s house to ask about the clothes that she hanged outside her house but were missing.

The inquiry irked the suspect.

The teenager walked home to avoid any trouble but when she was several meters away from the basketball court, the suspect suddenly stabbed her with a pair of scissors.

Wounded in the back, the victim was rushed by her landlady, Rowena Rosales, to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center while the suspect fled before the responding barangay officers arrived.

Rosales said the suspect, who was very angry and was bringing the weapon with her, went to their house earlier and asked for the victim’s whereabouts.  (FREEMAN)