She was able to send a text message for help to her father but the gunman who had started the shooting spree got her before he came.

“Papa, tabang (father, help),” 16-year-old Sangguniang Kabataan chair Imee Occeña asked her father, Armando.

She also begged the gunman to spare her life but he ignored her, and shot her between the eyes at close range.

Imee, and three other barangay officials of Kapitan Ramon in Silay City, Negros Occidental, died while three others were wounded when former barangay captain Noel Ayalin, 48, barged into a meeting of the barangay council and shot all those inside at about 8:30 a.m. yesterday.

A complaint has been filed against Don Salvador Benedicto Mayor Marxlen de la Cruz and Kumaliskis Barangay Captain Juanito Pedrosa Jr. before the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas in Cebu for alleged violation of Republic Act 3019, otherwise known as the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, lawyer Jose Max Ortiz said yesterday.

The criminal charges for violation of RA 3019 filed by DSB residents Romeo Ferrer, Rogelio Rebatado and Jimmy Tolentino are in connection with a memorandum of agreement between the two DSB officials and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

A traffic altercation allegedly led a trisikad driver to stab a retired policeman in Brgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod City, while a laborer was killed when a group ganged-up on him in Brgy. Banago Saturday in an incident the police called “tripping”.

Police records identified the victims as retired Senior Police Officer 2 Enrique Villarosa, 48, of Celita Village in Brgy. Alijis, and Reynante Montes, 21, of Purok Nami-Nami in Brgy. Banago, both in Bacolod.

Villarosa who sustained stab wounds on his left side and on his chest, is now confined at the Bacolod Adventist Medical Center after Elmeterio Amar “alias Nonoy Carabao”, 40, of San Sebastian-Lirio streets in Brgy. 30, Bacolod stabbed him near the Fiesta Homes Subdivision in Brgy. Sum-ag at about 11:45 p.m.