Woman shot dead by bike driver

CEBU, Philippines - A woman was shot dead by an unidentified man around 6:30 a.m. last Friday at OPRRA Road, Barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City.

The victim was identified as Jovelyn Casida, 28, a resident of Sitio Yellow Bells of the same barangay.

Investigation revealed that victim and the assailant were riding the same motorcycle heading to the barangay hall when the assailant suddenly stopped and shot the victim with a handgun.

Casida was shot in the right eye and was brought by responding personnel of the Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, but she was declared dead on arrival by the attending physician.

The assailant, wearing a white t-shirt, was last seen driving in the direction of the Cebu City Jail in Barangay Kalunasan riding a blue Honda wave motorcycle.

Police recovered an empty shell of a .45 cal. round and a Nokia cellular phone from the crime scene.

Cebu City Police Office Homicide Section investigator SPO1 Ruel Ayuman said in an interview with The FREEMAN that prior to the incident Casida left her sister’s house without her knowledge.

Ayuman said one possible angle into the shooting was drugs. They were able to verify that the victim’s live-in partner Victorino Caballes is now detained at the Cebu City Jail after being convicted for possession of shabu

Caballes, who was arrested in July of 2010, was only convicted by Regional Trial Court Branch 8 Judge Macaundas Hadjirasul last Mar. 25, 2013.

In another incident, a man was shot several times and killed while walking home with his neighbor in Barangay Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City, yesterday dawn.

Rodrigo Oyao, 20, of the same barangay, just finished capturing fighting spiders for gambling with his neighbor Jelvin Senerpida when three men arrived and shot Oyao without any provocation.

The victim was already dead when ERUF arrived. Responding policemen found three empty .45 cal. shells at the scene.

The assailants were last seeing fleeing on a motorcycle. –Cathlene Lou D. Tacoloy and Marielle Shayne L. Palaubsanon, CNU interns/BRP (FREEMAN)