Police files

DISPATCHER KILLED, MAN HURT IN LAPU SHOOTINGS

A 40-YEAR-OLD jeepney dispatcher was killed while a 28-year-old man was injured in separate shooting incidents in Lapu-Lapu City.

Michael Bonbon was calling passengers on Maximo Patalinghug Avenue last Tuesday noon when two men on board a motorcycle arrived and suddenly shot him.

The assailants, who wore full-faced helmets hurriedly drove off, leaving the victim slumped on the ground.

Bonbon, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the body, was declared dead at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City.

Police said no one was able to jot down the plate number of the motorcycle boarded by the assailants.

Police are still investigating the motive behind the attack.

In barangay Mactan, a 28-year-old was shot by a still-unidentified man around 11 a.m. yesterday.

Apolinario Dihayco was wounded in the nape.

Police said Dihayco was shot from behind while he was walking along the road.

The attacker fled after the attack.

A slug was still embedded in the victim’s neck when he was taken to the Mactan Doctors’ Hospital.

Police said the attack could be drug-related. /CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA

MAN STABBED OVER P140

A 34-YEAR-OLD man was stabbed repeatedly by his neighbor after they argued over a P140 debt in barangay Suba, Cebu City yesterday morning.

Josephus Tanag Bullicer, 34, sustained stab wounds in the face, right leg, abdomen and back.

The suspect, Antonio Bacalla Zafra, was arrested by Magdaleno Ortega Caburnay, security guard of the Pasil Fish Market where the incident happened.

Police investigation revealed that a month ago, Zafra gave Bullicer P140 cash to buy shabu.

Police said that while Bullicer accepted the money, he failed to buy the shabu.

Since then, Zafra had been hunting his Bullicer.

At past 5 a.m. yesterday, Zafra chanced upon the victim at the market. There, the suspect asked the victim to return his money.

Bullicer told the suspect that he didn’t have money which triggered an argument.

Police said Zafra took a pair of scissors and started stabbing his neighbor.

Bullicer ran but was chased and stabbed again by the suspect, police said.

Police said the suspect will be charged for attempted homicide. /CORRESPONDENTS CHITO O. ARAGON AND CHRISTINE EMILY L. PANTALEON