Notorious thief shot dead in computer shop

BACOLOD CITY – An alleged notorious thief was gunned down inside a computer shop in Barangay 2 here on Sunday, March 24.

Police identified the victim as 26-year-old Benjoe San Jose of Barangay 2.

AN alleged notorious thief was shot dead inside a computer shop in Barangay 2, Bacolod City, on Sunday, March 24. (Photo courtesy of Police Station 2) 

Police Capt. Glenn Montaño, head of Police Station 2, said the victim was playing computer games in a computer shop when three unidentified persons arrived.

The suspects ordered customers to leave the computer shop and gunshots were heard.

Montaño said the victim who sustained bullet wounds in the head and back was taken to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) here where he died.

Recovered from the crime scene were four fired .45 caliber bullets.

Montaño said the victim was arrested for theft, alarm and scandal, resistance, and disobedience to person in authority.

He also had several complaints for robbery but no cases were filed against him, Montaño said.

Montaño said the victim was also under the station’s drugs watchlist for being an alleged drug user.

He said the incident could be a retaliation because of his previous offenses, drug-related, or something personal.