Scorned wife kills husband in mall

MANILA, Philippines - Left by her husband for another woman he met at work, a woman shot dead her husband at his workplace – a mall – Wednesday night.

Shella Macapugay, 25, did not have any regrets over what she had done.

“What she regrets is that the gun did not go off when she pointed it at herself and instead hit a security guard,” Inspector Elmer Monsalve, head of the homicide investigation section of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), told The STAR.

Security guard Ricardo Inamac, who tried to stop Shella from killing herself, died at a hospital.

Shella’s estranged husband, Abel, 32, died after being shot in the head with the .38 caliber revolver the woman smuggled into the mall.

Superintendent Audi Madrideo, commander of QCPD Station 2, said the incident happened at past 7 p.m. Wednesday.

He said Shella had prepared two suicide notes, one for her mother and another for her mother-in-law, wherein she asked them to take care of her daughter.

Abel worked as a sales employee at a shop in the mall. Shella had worked at the same mall, also as a sales employee. Abel’s reported mistress also works there.

The couple had been married for almost six years and have a five-year-old daughter. Abel’s reported mistress gave birth recently, police said.

Shella said her husband left her and their daughter last January and started living with his mistress. She told police that Abel refused to give them financial support.

She said she was able to buy a revolver for P4,000 in Bulacan and on Wednesday, confronted Abel regarding their problem. In the middle of their confrontation, Shella drew a gun she hid in her bag and shot her husband in the head.

Upon seeing her husband fall, Shella tried to shoot herself but Inamac tried to wrest the gun away from her. Inamac suffered gunshot wounds in the back and left leg during the scuffle.

Shella again pointed the handgun at her head and pulled the trigger several times, but the gun did not fire. Another security guard, Efren Songcayawon, managed to stop her and take the gun away.