Police Files

STUDENT ROBBED

AN ARMED man held up  a University of Cebu student at the A.C. Cortes skywalk in front of the school last Saturday afternoon.

Rose Mae Degala of barangay Carajay, Lapu-Lapu City, lost her cellphone and P100 cash to a man who was armed with a gun at the skywalk.

Degala told the police that she was coming down the stairs on the other side of the skywalk at 3 p.m. when she was held up.

She returned to the school and informed the security guard who called the police./REPORTER JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS

DISPATCHER GUNNED DOWN

A MOTORCYCLE-RIDING gunman shot dead a jeepney dispatcher in barangay Tabunok, Talisay City.

Dominador Nacario, 39, was calling on passengers when the unidentified assailant shot him with a .45 caliber pistol Saturday night.

Nacario didn’t reach the hospital alive.

The assailant fled after the attack, police said./Correspondent Joy Cherry S. Quito

MAN STABBED IN MINGLANILLA

A 19-year-old man, who was on his way home from work, was stabbed dead in barangay Lipata, Minglanilla town, southern Cebu yesterday.

John Berney Apor, a Nissin Monde employee, died after he was stabbed several times in the body as he was walking home at past 3 a.m.

Police were looking into robbery as the motive in the killing since the unidentified assailant took the victim’s cellphone./Correspondent Joy Cherry S. Quito

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