Boy, suspect hurt in Malabon robbery

A robbery suspect was critically wounded while an eight-year-old boy was also hit by a stray bullet in a foiled holdup try yesterday afternoon in Malabon City.

Suspect Crispin Elcobar, 26, of Yangco Flores street, Navotas, is now confined at the Tondo General Hospital with two gunshot wounds in the right thigh and at the back of the body.

The boy, of Block 9, Lot 36, Phase 4, Barangay Tañong, Malabon, was also taken to the same hospital for treatment of a single bullet wound in the right thigh.

Barangay Tañong watchman Dante Manalansang, 43, said that at around 12:30 p.m., they received a call from a concerned resident of C-4 Road, Breakwater area about an ongoing shootout between a group of unidentified armed men and at least three robbery holdup suspects.

"We received information that residents in the area were shooting it out with three holdup suspects," Manalansang said.

The boy was hit by a stray bullet while Elcobar was cornered after he sustained two gunshot wounds and ran out of bullets. – Pete Laude