2 minors stabbed, hurt in gang fight inside PUJ

Two juveniles were stabbed and wounded in a fight, allegedly among gang members, right inside a Mandaue-bound passenger jeepney along Kaohsiung Street in barangay Mabolo last night.

The victims, aged 17 and 16, were reportedly members of the Crips Gang and were on their way home to barangay Sapangdaku, Mandaue City, when they got into a fight with a fellow passenger who was reportedly a member of the rival Bloods Gang.

Shortly after the stabbing, the 18-year-old suspect Rub Hansen Pleñoz, surrendered to Mandaue City policemen, SPO1 Emmanuel Enolpe and PO2 Remegio Arciaga, who later turned him over to the Cebu City Police that had jurisdiction of the case, as it happened in Mabolo.

According to SPO2 Rey Cuyos, of the Cebu City Homicide Section, the juveniles were riding a jeepney on their way home to Mandaue when, upon reaching near the boundary of Mabolo and Sapangdaku, they met the suspect right inside the vehicle.

But PO2 Buenaventura Ursaiz said the trouble started inside a mall at the north reclamation area where members of the two gangs met and taunted one another.

Ursaiz said the taunting did not lead to a rumble but Pleñoz narrated he was riding the PUJ when the two juveniles he earlier met among other gang members inside the mall, took the same vehicle.

Pleñoz, a resident of barangay Nangka in Consolacion, told the police that the two juveniles allegedly attacked him, prompting him to retaliate.

He alleged further that he was able to disarm the juveniles of their ice pick, which he eventually used in defending himself by stabbing the two. -Edwin Ian Melecio/RAE