Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Sun Star Cebu
FIVE youngsters wearing black shirts went on a rampage past midnight yesterday by damaging a lawyer’s car and then stabbing to death a 19-year-old man who was on his way home.
Gerry Giuseppe A. Gatungay, a married third year college student, was attacked by the still unidentified men at the corner of Ganciang and Oliva Sts. in Barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu City. Gatungay is a resident of neighboring Barangay Basak-Pardo.
He died at the Cebu City Medical Center at 2:39 a.m., two hours after the attack.
A witness told an investigating team led by SPO2 Rey Cuyos that he was driving his trisikad when he came across the group of youngsters.
The driver said one of the youngsters told him “ngita mi riot, part (we’re looking for a riot).”
The group then attacked a gray Mitsubishi Lancer parked in the area, damaging its rear window and left front tire. The car is owned by lawyer Learson Tabotabo, a resident of the area.
At this point, the trisikad driver left the area out of fear.
The group then spotted Gatungay walking and attacked him. Gatungay tried to run away but later fell due to injuries he suffered.
A Mobile Patrol Group (MPG) car boarded by PO3 Alvin Llamedo and his team arrived in the area and took Gatungay to the city hospital.
Gatungay later died because of multiple stab wounds.
Cuyos, in a mobile phone interview yesterday, said the Homicide Section and the Mambaling Police Station are helping each other in the investigation.
Cuyos said they are verifying information that the attackers are members of a gang.
In a separate incident, a 16-year-old boy survived being shot by two men on a motorcycle on Sanciangko St., Barangay Pahina Central.
The boy was walking with two friends at 1:10 a.m. when the motorcycle-riding suspects, who were wearing full-face helmets, stopped near them.
The motorcycle driver, who turned out to be armed with a handgun, shot the boy, hitting him in his right hand.
The boy and his companions managed to escape from the gunman.
Although wounded, the boy reached his house and asked help from his sister, who rushed him to the city hospital. (JTG)
Gang rampage kills student
Originally Posted by radiostar
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