MANILA, Philippines - Three men shot a former military general’s driver and carjacked his employer’s sport utility vehicle (SUV) behind a Quezon City hospital Monday afternoon.
The carjackers dumped an unconscious Jowie Pintuan, 38, in Caloocan City. Village watchmen brought him to the Diosdado Macapagal Medical Center.
In a report filed by Pintuan’s employer, Patricinio Isleta, he said he only received a call from a nurse at the hospital, who told him about the incident and that Pintuan was brought there for gunshot wounds. Isleta, 73, reportedly a retired military general, lost his beige Nissan X-trail (NHU-304) in the incident.
According to a report from the Quezon City Police District, the carjacking happened at around 1 p.m. Monday at the back of a hospital along E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue. Pintuan had just finished lunch and was about to board the SUV when three men appeared and pistol-whipped him in the neck.
The carjackers then pushed him into the vehicle and took over the SUV. They shot Pintuan in the back and dumped him in Caloocan after about an hour.
Over the weekend, a Toyota Revo and a Toyota Fortuner were stolen in separate incidents in Quezon City. In both instances, there were three carjackers involved and their occupants were dropped off in other areas.
Superintendent Froilan Uy, head of the QCPD’s anti-car theft unit, said it was still too early to determine if the carjacking of the X-trail was connected with that of the Revo and the Fortuner.
According to Uy, he sent a team to talk to Pintuan to get a description of the three carjackers.