Man toying with gun fatally shoots wife

BAMBANG, Nueva Vizcaya — Playing with guns could be fatal.

This was lesson learned too late by a 27-year-old man whose shotgun went off while he was toying with it yesterday, fatally hitting his 28-year-old wife in the head.

Elsie Salvatierra said her brother Jerson and his wife Beverly, who had just arrived from a neighbor’s wedding reception, were teasing each other inside their house in Barangay Almaguer South here, while Jerson played with his shotgun.

She said Jerson accidentally pulled the trigger while he jokingly aimed the gun at his wife.

Jerson surrendered to the police immediately after the incident.

Chief Inspector Dionisio de Guzman, this town’s police chief, said a case of parricide is being readied against Jerson.