26th victim shot at brod’s door
When Boboy Yaya saw death coming for him, he ran. He wasn’t fast enough.
The alleged right-hand man of suspected robbery gang leader and drug pusher Joel “Tongol” Nodalo was gunned down yesterday morning after a brief chase in Barangay Tejero, Cebu City.
Hector Salcedo, 44, also known by his alias Boboy Yaya, died of multiple gunshot wounds in different parts of his body and head past 7 a.m. on Alviola St., right on his brother’s doorstep.
Investigators from the Cebu City Police Homicide Section, led by SPO1 Jay Yballe, are trying to determine whether Salcedo’s death was a drug-related vendetta, or part of a string of vigilante attacks in the city.
If indeed vigilantes were the ones who attacked Salcedo, that would make him the 26th victim in two months. The attacks began on Dec. 22, shortly after Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña announced the creation of a hunters’ team.
Salcedo’s family, though, initially brushed off speculations that his death was carried out by a vigilante group or the police hunters.
Witnesses told homicide investigators they saw Salcedo sitting on a wooden bench in front of the Inahan sa Kanunay’ng Panabang (Our Lady of Perpetual Help) chapel, waiting for his daughter who was buying porridge from a nearby store.
Moments later, Salcedo hurriedly ran towards the interior portion after seeing a man approach him.
Two other men cornered Salcedo in a narrow alley, prompting the victim to run to his brother’s house.