Police Files

Shot dead by 3security guard

A CONSTRUCTION worker was shot dead by a security guard while standing along the street in barangay Tipolo, Mandaue City yesterday dawn.

Ryan Naingue, a native of Tuburan town in northern Cebu and a stay-in construction worker of Urban Homes in barangay Tipolo, Mandaue City was rushed to Mandaue City Hospital after he sustained a gunshot wound in the head.

However he didn’t make it. Mandaue police identified the suspect as Rogelio Bintad Jr., a security guard of Ropisa security agency detailed at Urban Homes.

Police cited witnesses who recounted that the victim was standing at Lopez Jaena Street when Bintad approached and without provocation shot him on the head.

The suspect’s brother James Bintad, who also worked in Urban Homes, was invited by police for questioning.

But he said he wasn’t aware about any conflict between Naingue and his brother.

Bintad’s other brother, SPO1 Joel Bintad of the Mandaue City police, was asked the same thing but he professed not knowing about the circumstances behind the shooting. Bintad was urged to ask his brother to surrender. Correspondent Norman V. Mendoza

Stabbing attack

THREE men were stabbed and wounded by three other men while they tried to settle a dispute involving one of the suspects in barangay Buaya, Lapu-Lapu City last Saturday afternoon.

The victims identified as 45-year-old Arthur Sullano, 54-year-old Catalino Cuizon, and 20-year-old Ryan Linao, all residents of Zone 4 in barangay Buaya were rushed to the Lapu-Lapu City Hospital following the attack.

All three sustained stab wounds inflicted by an icepick used by the suspects.

The suspects were identified by police based on the accounts of two other victims identified as Mark Anthony Mangubat, and 30-year-old Roel Abing, also from barangay Buaya.

Police said a certain Romeo Tuñacao was approached by suspect Arnel Mangubat who boxed him in the face.

The victims tried to pacify the two but the companions of the suspects stabbed them with ice picks and fled from the scene, said police./Correspondent Norman V. Mendoza