Three unidentified men gunned down a member of an Anti-Crime group behind a mall at the Bacolod City downtown area at about 11:20 p.m. Saturday.

Bacolod City Police Special Operations Task Group head, Supt. Santiago Rapiz identified the victim as Noli Carcueva, 50 of City Heights Subdivision in Brgy. Taculing.

Carcueva sustained a through-and-through gunshot wound in the head, two in the abdomen and another two in the back and was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, where he died while being treated, case investigator Police Officer 3 Celito Dullan said.

Investigation showed that Carcueva, a member of the Negros Occidental Anti-Crime group, was sitting on his motorcycle parked behind the north wing of SM mall when the suspects, who were on board two motorcycles, arrived and shot him at close range.

Six empty shells of a 9-milimeter pistol, another deformed slug of the same caliber and a pair of slippers, were recovered from the crime scene police records showed.

Rapiz said the suspects immediately fled on board their motorcycles but witnesses failed to identify them as they were wearing helmets. Among the motives they are looking into is that the killing was related to Carcueva’s job as a member of NOACG, or a love triangle, he said.

Rapiz added that one of the gunmen, or the person behind the killing of Carcueva may have been communicating with him before the incident as his cellular phone was the only item missing.

Meanwhile, an employee of a food factory linked to the fatal stabbing of a man in Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod Saturday, was injured when he was mauled by bystanders.

Station 8 chief, Senior Insp. Jerick Filosofo said Eugene Lucero, 28, of Brgy. Paraiso in Sagay City and the victim Remo Jandoquile, 24, had an argument while they were having drinks in a store in Purok Greenfield.

Jandoquile left to end the argument but Lucero followed and stabbed him, Filosofo said.

Jandoquile was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, where he died at about 1:40 a.m. yesterday.*APN

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