Teenager slain after visiting girlfriend

A teenager was reportedly shot dead by two minors while walking on his way home along T. Padilla Street after visiting his girlfriend yesterday dawn.

Police identified the victim as John Paul Amahan, 18, a resident of F. Villa Street. He sustained a gunshot wound in his chest that caused his death.

PO1 Mario Torrejos, a Mobile Patrol Group operative who visited the Homicide Section yesterday, said the victim was walking alone when the suspects, both 15 years old, approached him and immediately opened fire for unknown reasons.

The victim was rushed to the Cebu City Medical Center where he was declared dead on arrival. Torrejos said that a witnesses pointed to two minors as the ones who shot the victim. But the two denied involvement in the crime, saying that they were just picked up by police when a witness pointed to them as the suspects.

They said they did not even know who the victim was. The suspects are now under the custody of Department of Social Welfare and Development while awaiting the filing of charges against them to be filed by the victim's relatives. - Flor Z. Perolina