Painter’s house sprayed with bullets

The house of a popular painter in a subdivision in Quezon city was strafed with bullets yesterday morning, wounding a stay-in houseboy.

Police Officer 3 Jerry Barientos, Central Police District Station 8 — Project 4 desk officer, said the house of E. R. Tagle at 82 Katipunan street in White Plains Subdivision in Quezon City was peppered with bullets at around 1:45 a.m. by still unidentified men.

Tagle’s houseboy, Dante Nareda, 18, was hit while sleeping on the ground floor of the house.

The victim, who sustained a gunshot would in the left thigh, was taken to the World City College, formerly Quezon City Medical Center.

Beth Sison Tagle, the painter’s wife who manages an art gallery in the same house, told investigators that they were awakened by the successive gunshots.

Tagle also told probers that she went out of the room after hearing gunshots and saw blood started oozing from Narade’s left thigh.

Investigators said the painter’s wife believe that the incident was meant to threaten her son Edwin, who is a star witness in a case.

Tagle said this is the second time their house was sprayed with bullets by unidentified men. The first incident happened last year.