Shooting incidents continue despite the election gun ban.
Yesterday a two-year-old boy and a a 46-year-old woman were shot and wounded in separate shooting incidents in Lapu-Lapu and Cebu cities.
In barangay Pusok, Lapu-Lapu City, a stray bullet from a morning shootout between two armed men hit a boy, who was accompanying his grandmother in a nearby eatery in sitio Seawage.
The boy was wounded in the shoulder.
The boy’s grandmother rushed him to the Mactan Doctor’s Hospital where doctors removed the bullet lodged in the boy’s shoulder.
Police are still looking for the two men who shot it out in the area.
Police said they were looking into the possibility that the shootout was a fraternity-related incident.
Quiot attack
A few hours later, in sitio Ubca, barangay Quiot, Cebu City, Fe Cansancio was shot in the face when the gunman missed his target: Cansancio’s son.
Police said Cansancio was confined at the Cebu City Medical Center where she’s treated for a gunshot wound in her left cheek.
Police said that a man wearing a bonnet came looking for Cansancio’s son, Jonas, who was then asleep.
The man waited at the gate of the house as Cansancio asked the man to wait believing that the man was a friend of Jonas. She went inside to wake up Jonas.
But when Jonas opened the door, the assailant pulled out a gun and shot Jonas, who ducked hitting Cansancio instead, who was behind Jonas.
The assailant then walked casually and boarded a motorcycle.
SPO2 Victoriano Ayuman, Cebu City Homicide investigator, said they were looking into the illegal drug angle since Jonas admitted that he was selling illegal drugs before, but he had since stopped a few months ago./Correspondents Norman V. Mendoza and Chito O. Aragon