BACOLOD CITY - A policeman and two civilians, including a teenager, were wounded after they were shot by a member of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu) in a fiesta in Barangay Alimango, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, July 1.
A POLICEMAN is treated in a private hospital in Bacolod City after he was shot by a Cafgu when he responded to a commotion in a fiesta in Barangay Alimango, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, July 1. (Photo courtesy of Escalante City Police Station)
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The victims were identified as Police Master Sgt. Teofesto Aburido, Jeban Sayon, 18, of Barangay Alimango, and Jay-r Garganera, 34, of Toboso town, Negros Occidental.
Police Chief Master Sgt. Jojit Ruiz, investigator of the Escalante City Police Station, said that Aburido was among those assigned by the station to secure the fiesta.
Aburido got involved – and was shot – as he responded to a commotion between a 40-year-old Cafgu and a local court sheriff.
Ruiz said the Cafgu confronted the sheriff after he saw the latter talking to his alleged lover during the fiesta.
Both were under the influence of liquor when they figured in a heated argument, he added.
Aburido tried to pacify them, but another comjmotion occurred between the two, leading to a shooting incident, according to Ruiz.
Ruiz said that when Aburido was about to approach the suspect to pacify him again, the latter allegedly fired a gunshot at close range against the policeman. The two civilians, who were also in the area were hit by stray bullets, the investigator added.
Ruiz said that Aburido retaliated, but the suspect, who was a rebel returnee, managed to escape. Nobody was hit by Aburido’s bullet, he added.
Ruiz said that Aburido suffered a lone bullet wound in the chest with an exit wound on his lower back, while Sayon sustained a bullet wound in the stomach and Garganera was hit in the left ankle.
Police recovered from the crime scene eight empty fired cartridges, live ammunition, a deformed slug,a holster of a .45 caliber firearm, and four empty fired cartridges of a 9mm caliber firearm.
Aburido and Sayon are confined in separate private hospitals here while Garganera was admitted to Vicente Gustilo District Hospital in Escalante City. They are in stable condition, according to Ruiz.
Ruiz said the Army 79th Infantry Battalion (IB) turned over the suspect to the police on Saturday night, along with his .45 caliber firearm allegedly used in the incident.
Ruiz said they are preparing the necessary documents for the filing of frustrated homicide or frustrated murder charges against the suspect.
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