Lone case of indiscriminate firing in Makati investigated

The police  are looking deeper into the only case of indiscriminate firing reported in Makati City during the New Year’s Eve celebration.

Although the complainant Manolito L. Gau declined to file charges, the police said they would conduct a probe of the shooting to possibly determine who fired the bullet found in Gau’s bedroom.

Gau’s room is on the third floor of an apartment on Lumbayao Street in Barangay San Antonio.

Believed to have been fired from a .45-cal. handgun, the deformed bullet casing was forwarded to the Southern Police District’s scene of the crime operatives.

Gau and his family were having dinner at 7:45 p.m. on Dec. 31 when they heard a loud crash coming his bedroom.

When he went up to check, he found a bullet and a hole on the wall. He then asked for assistance from barangay officials in San Antonio who in turn called the Makati police.

According to case investigator PO3 Arnis Ojastro, the gun was obviously fired indiscriminately. “There was no intent to [shoot] anybody,” he said. Bystanders who were questioned said they did not see anybody firing a gun, he added.

Even SPO1 Arsenio Gardon of the Police Community Precinct in San Antonio said they did not notice anything unusual in the area at the time the gun was supposedly fired.