Victim won’t press charges

The businesswoman who was shot and wounded by a motorcycle-riding assailant in barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City, is not interested in filing charges, said the police.

“She is not showing interest in filing charges against the perpetrators. She knows something that she doesn’t want to divulge,” said Senior Supt. Melvin Buenafe, chief of the Cebu City police.

With this, police will have to look for other witnesses to help identify and lead to the arrest of the assailant of Rowena Bensing, said Buenafe.

Bensing was driving a Honda sedan along V. Rama Avenue when she was shot in the back by a motorcycle-riding gunman on Monday night.

Buenafe said the perpetrators were seen transferring to a Toyota Vios sedan after the attack.

Police are withholding the name of the Toyota owner to avoid hampering the investigation.

The Honda sedan with plate number YEV-884 driven by Bensing is owned by Modesto Membreve, regional director of the National Irrigation Administration in Central Visayas.

Buenafe said Membreve will be invited by police in the investigation.

Police are looking into possible motives of the attack and said the shooting could be related to business or personal grudges.

Bensing is a distributor of Herbalife. CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON