A fish vendor helper was shot dead along Don Sulpicio Go Street near the South Road Properties while he was on his way to work at the Pasil Fish Market yesterday dawn.
Homicide investigators identified the victim as Adonis Altor, 43, a resident of the place, whose sprawled body was found shortly after successive gunshots were heard in the area.
Police found a gunshot wound on Altor’s right cheek and two more on the left side of his body.
Altor’s live-in partner, Rosalina Sapara, said he had just left the house to go to work when being gunned down. Their neighbors told her that some unidentified people did it.
Homicide investigator SPO1 Jay Yballe said the victim was shot in close range, as shown on the “tattooing” marks in the wounds that indicated the gun used was fired almost “point-blank.”
There were no cartridges and slugs recovered from the scene and the police have to trace the background of Altor first to determine if there are people who might have been holding grudges against him.
The police had also invited for questioning two security guards who were detailed near the crime scene. These guards might have some details that could lead to the possible identification of the gunmen.
Meanwhile, in Balamban town, a 16-year-old boy surrendered to the Balamban Police Station for the death of a 42-year-old tricycle driver at the town’s public market Saturday afternoon.
The boy was the son of a certain Mr. Pedrosa that the driver, Flaviano Dayanan, had a fight with that resulted in the mauling of the elder Pedrosa.
The boy, who was in their house at the time, learned from his cousin that his father was beaten up at the market. This prompted him to go to the place to look for the driver who hurt his father.
Police accounts stated that the boy, upon seeing Dayanan, quickly approached and shot the latter once in the forehead. The victim never reached the Balamban District Hospital alive.
The boy, however, surrendered to the police and yielded his .357 caliber revolver that he said he used in the killing. —Edwin Ian Melecio/RAE