Lone gunman shoots auto parts dealers in QC

A lone gunman shot dead late Saturday afternoon a 74-year-old widow and wounded her son inside their automobile parts store in Quezon City.

The shooter fled as quickly as he appeared after shooting Rosalia Tan and wounding her 48-year-old-son Winston, both of Kabignayan Street corner Banawe Avenue in Barangay Tatalon.

Senior Police Officer 1 Cristituto Zaldarriaga of the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said both the elderly Tan and the son were hit once in their jaws. While Rosalia was killed instantly, Winston was rushed to an undisclosed hospital.

Home-based business

Zaldarriaga said the incident happened at about 3 p.m. while the Tans were attending to the family’s home-based store.

According to the case investigator, the armed man suddenly arrived and opened fire.

The old woman died on the spot. Auto supply employees rushed Winston to the hospital.

Scene of the Crime Operatives recovered from the site one bullet casing from a  .45-caliber firearm.

In July last year, three persons, all surnamed Tan, were killed and two others were wounded in a similar shooting at a house along Kabignayan Street.

Close relatives

The alleged gunmen in the previous shooting were arrested and were charged for the killing. The accused, a father and his two sons, were close relatives of the victims, who were allegedly killed in a quarrel over their auto supply business.

Zaldarriaga said that the motive behind Saturday’s killing remained under investigation.

He added that they had yet to establish whether the attack on the elderly woman and her son was related to last year’s incident.

Police also have yet to ascertain the relationship of the victims in the two shooting incidents.