Fratman slain in shooting spree

MANILA, Philippines — A 28-year-old member of the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity was killed while another member was wounded when an assailant barged into their fraternity house in Binondo, Manila and went on a shooting spree before dawn yesterday.

James Carl Suico and five other fraternity members were drinking in the house in Parola Compound when someone knocked on the door at around 1:15 a.m.

The group’s youngest member, a 16-year-old boy, opened the door. A man wearing a hoodie and a face mask rushed in, shot the boy in the face and fired at everyone in sight.

Suico died at the scene while the boy was rushed to the Jose Abad Santos General Hospital and was later transferred to the Ospital ng Maynila.

Witnesses told police that a man had been knocking on doors in the area and inquiring after the whereabouts of four fraternity members, according to Capt. Henry Navarro, Manila Police District homicide chief.