Stray bullet hits Caloocan teenager
By Jamie Marie Elona
A teenager was wounded after he was hit by a stray bullet in Caloocan before dawn Tuesday, police said Wednesday.

A teenager was wounded after he was hit by a stray bullet in Caloocan before dawn Tuesday, police said Wednesday.

Who’s got the right man? Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said on Monday that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Philippine National Police (PNP) had each tagged a different suspect in the death of seven-year-old Stephanie Nicole Ella.
After laying their daughter to rest on Saturday, the family of stray bullet victim Stephanie Nicole Ella are now setting their sights on a difficult but much-needed task: Moving on.
With what is now cliché reporting of fires, injuries, and deaths resulting from firecracker accidents and stray bullets, New Year’s Day is becoming the most predictably dangerous day of the year in the Philippines.

The shooter who claimed to have accidentally shot four-year-old Ranjelo Nimer on New Year’s Eve has begged for forgiveness from the boy’s parents, admitting he was out to exact revenge on someone who beat him up earlier where Nimer and his family lived.

Police arrested 18 trigger-happy individuals for allegedly firing their guns during the New Year’s Eve revelry, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Wednesday.

A seven-year-old child who has been inside the surgical intensive care unit of a Quezon City hospital after being hit in the head by a stray bullet during the New Year revelry survived two cardiac arrests early Wednesday, her attending physician said.

“Fortunately lucky” was how a doctor described the newborn babies in the pediatric ward of Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, after a stray bullet went through the second floor roof of the building early Tuesday, New Year’s day.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Tuesday it might invite licensed gun owners within the vicinity of areas where victims were hit by stray bullets during the New Year’s eve merrymaking.
A WOMAN was killed while a man was wounded by stray bullets in a shooting incident in barangay Subangdaku, Mandaue City.
AN American national allegedly went wild inside a visa processing agency in barangay Centro, Mandaue City. Warren Baker, 70, allegedly smashed the glass table of RJ Agency after he was informed that his visa application for a temporary residency was turned down by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) in Manila.

A 24-year-old man who simply stepped outside his house because he could not sleep was hit by a stray bullet Thursday in Manila.
THE discrepancy in the number of stray bullet victims recorded by the PNP and the Department of Health during the Christmas and New Year celebrations calls for a closer coordination between the two agencies.