Tau Gamma member shot dead in Liloan

A member of the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity was shot to death by three suspected members of Alpha Kappa Rho fraternity in Villa Aloha Subdivision in barangay Poblacion, Liloan town, last Sunday.

The victim was identified as 27-year-old Narpol Lumapas, a resident of the place.

Based on the investigation conducted by the Liloan police, the victim followed his neighbors last Sunday evening to the Pepito Beach Resort in barangay Jubay where they were had a drink.

But as he was on his way to his neighbors'' cottage at the beach, three men who were drinking nearby called him for a drink. The victim stayed with the men even as his neighbors urged him to join them in the nearby cottage.

After drinking, Lumapas and the men left, but as they were walking toward Villa Aloha, one of the men suddenly shot him with a gun of undetermined caliber. Residents of the place saw the men casually walk away after the incident.

SPO2 Rizalino Aligno said as responding policemen arrived at the crime scene, the victim was already lying on the roadside with a single gunshot wound to the back of his head.

The victim was immediately brought to the Eversley Sanitarium and Hospital in barangay Jagobiao, Mandaue City, but was later transferred to Don Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center where he died few minutes later.

Aligno said the victim''s wife believed that the assailants of her husband were members of the Alpha Kappa Rho, the rival fraternity of the Tau Gamma. - Flor Z. Perolina/LPM