MetroBriefs

1 dead in shooting in QC

A MAN was killed in a drive-by shooting carried out by five men on Saturday evening in Quezon City. Senior Police Officer 2 Neil Garnace of the Quezon City Police District said  Lobreo Ymata, 26,  a resident of Joseph Street in Barangay (village) Holy Spirit, was hit in the chest and died on the spot. An investigation showed that the victim and his friends were standing in front of his house at around 10 p.m. when several men on motorcycles fired at them. Ymata was rushed by his friends to General Malvar Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.  The police said that based on the statements of witnesses, the same group had passed by the victim’s house before and one of Ymata’s friends had thrown an empty bottle at them which nearly hit a woman.  After a few minutes, the group came back, this time armed with with high-powered firearms, and opened fire on Ymata and his friends. Nancy C. Carvajal

Lawman wounded in ambush

A PARAÑAQUE policeman was shot and wounded at the Baclaran public market on Black Saturday by a man he had arrested years ago. The man who fired at SPO2 Rodolfo Marcelo, 52, was identified as Alfredo Rodriguez, according to a report from the Parañaque Station Investigation and Detective Management Office.  “It appears to be a personal grudge from an old case Marcelo had handled,” said city police chief Senior Superintendent Nestor Pastoral. He added that Marcelo was about to retire after serving as an anti-drug police operative. Initial investigation conducted by PO2 Johnny Margate and SPO4 Edwin Balacina showed that Marcelo was on his way home in a car being driven by his nephew when Rodriguez fired upon him and hit him in the chest and hand. The driver, however, managed to take the victim to the hospital despite a leg wound. Penelope P. Endozo