2 shot dead; boy nabbed for gun

CEBU, Philippines - Two people including a woman were shot dead in separate incidents in Cebu City.

In Barangay Sudlon 2, 24-year-old Ellen Ybañez, a farmer and resident of Tungkay, Toledo City, was gunned down Friday allegedly by her former lover.

Before dying, Ybañez was allegedly still able to tell her live-in partner Antonio Paran that it was Erwin Alicaba who shot her, Senior Police Officer 4 Rey Cuyos of Homicide Section said.

Paran revealed to the police that Alicaba once courted Ybañez but she turned him down because of him.

He further alleged that the suspect even challenged him to a fight last month due to the same reason, said Cuyos.

Paran, who wondered why the victim has not got home yet, travelled to Cebu City and timely found her lying at the roadside in the mountain barangay at 3 p.m. last Friday, already with gunshot wounds on her stomach and back.

Ybañez eventually died after losing several amount of blood as she was not rushed to the hospital right away.

Her body was taken to Saint  Francis Funeral Homes for an autopsy.

In another incident, in Barangay Hipodromo, video technician Faustino “Ostoy” Alferez, 35, was shot dead by an unidentified assailant early yesterday morning.

Alferez died after sustaining gunshot wounds on his back.

Initial investigation showed that prior to the incident, Alferez had a drinking session with his friend Juanito Dimafelis, who left him at the roadside thereafter.

Dimafelis told the police that when they were still together, the victim was still wearing his silver necklace, which he really remembered as the victim was not wearing an upper garment then.

Cuyos said that the necklace is now missing.

“Tulis ra tingali ang tuyo atong namusil apan misukol man ang biktima maong napusilan,” Cuyos theorized.

The body of the victim was brought to the same funeral parlor for an autopsy.

Meanwhile, a 14-year-old boy was apprehended for carrying a firearm while entering a school coliseum in Barangay Urgello on Friday evening.

Security guards of the university stopped the boy (name withheld for being a minor) from entering Aznar Coliseum at around 8 p.m., where a school activity was being held, after noticing something bulging at the back of his pocket.

The guards checked the minor’s pocket and found a cal. 38 snub revolver and an empty shell placed inside the cylinder.

The boy was turned over to Fuente Police Station and was temporarily detained for illegal possession of firearms.

The boy, through the footage of a closed-circuit television camera installed outside the school, was identified as the same person who stole a motorcycle (5048 IS), which was parked outside the school last August 8.  A case for carnapping was even filed against the boy last August 13.

The motorcycle was recovered from the minor’s house and was turned over to the owner Rogelio Capangpangan.  (FREEMAN)