Gunman shoots Bacoleño

A sexagenarian was injured when an unidentified gunman fired several times at his residence in Bacolod City at about 1 a.m. yesterday, Police Officer 3 Celito Dullan said.

Dullan identified the victim as Rommel dela Cruz, 65, of corner Kamagong and Agho streets, who sustained a lone gunshot wound on his chest.

Dullan said that, before the shooting, an unidentified man asked the victim's wife for his whereabouts. When the victim was about to open the door, the suspect who was standing about three meters away fired at him.

Dela Cruz was rushed to Bacolod Doctor's Hospital and was later transferred to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital . The suspect fled bringing the firearm he used.

Two shells of a .9-millimeter pistol were recovered from the scene while a slug of the same caliber was found embedded in the door of Dela Cruz house, Dullan told the DAILY STAR.

Dullan said they already have witnesses and have identified the suspect, whose identity he refused to divulge in order not to hamper their operations.

Meanwhile, Police Officer 3 Jonathan Guillena said Joshua, 19, and Doden Bustamante, 18, have already undergone paraffin tests to ascertain, who had shot to death Dennis Flores, 17, of Villamonte on Sunday at the Bacolod Public Plaza.

Flores succumbed to a lone gunshot wound on his back at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital several minutes after the shooting.

Despite the suspects' denial, Guillena said they will file homicide charges against them after the results of the paraffin test have been released and they are found positive.*APN

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IN MOISES PADILLA
Brgys create
defense system

Residents of two upland barangays of Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental, considered by the Philippine Army as New People's Army “expansion areas”, have formed a village defense system, to prevent the lawless groups from penetrating their areas.

Lt. Col. Franco Nemesio Gacal, 11 th Infantry Battalion commander, yesterday said the Barangay Defense System in Brgys. Montilla and Macagahay, all in Moises Padilla, have about 100 members.

BDS was also formed in Sitio Cunalom, Brgy. Carabalan, Himamaylan City , and in the hinterlands of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental, with the help of the 11 th Infantry Battalion, the military said.

The oath-taking of BDS members in Brgys. Montilla and Macagahay, Moises Padilla, coincided with the blessing of a newly-established CAFGU detachment in the town that was attended by Mayor Francisco Nazareno, Vice-Mayor Cipriano Remo, and Councilor Jimmy Don Plaza.*GPB

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Police arrest
74-year-old for rape raps

A septuagenarian facing two counts of rape was arrested Saturday in Brgy. Alegria , Murcia , Negros Occidental, four months after an arrest warrant was issued against him by Judge Allan Drilon.

Chief Insp. Simeon Gane, Murcia police chief, yesterday identified the arrested suspect as Cornelio Sobria, alias Koni.

Sobria who is now locked up in jail, was denied bail by Judge Drilon.

Senior Supt. Manuel Felix, provincial police director of Negros Occidental, meanwhile, ordered Supt. Melchor Coronel to exert more efforts in identifying and arresting the seven suspects in the hold-up incident in Brgy. Ma-ao, Bago City , on Oct.2.

The seven suspects who were armed with handguns, forcibly took P100,000 in payroll money from Maria Luz Era, intended for salaries of farm workers.*GPB

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