POLICE FILES

SUV RAMS JOLLIBEE

FOUR customers including a pregnant woman were injured when a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) rammed the glass wall of a food chain outlet in Osmeña Boulevard, Cebu City yesterday morning.

The Subaru Forester was driven by 19-year-old Nicole Iris Gamban.

Police said Gamban was about to park outside Jollibee when the incident occurred.

Police said that as the SUV has an automatic transmission, it was possible that the shift lever was still engaged in drive instead of park position when the woman stepped on the accelerator that caused the vehicle to move forward and run into the glass wall.

The victims were eating near the glass wall when it shattered from the impact.

Roque Romeron, 33; the pregnant 30-year-old Jonimae Salaga; Myrna Dy, 60 and her son Francis, 27, sustained minor injuries in different parts of their bodies.

They were brought to the Cebu Doctors’ Hospital.

SPO1 Armando Banoc said they were still waiting for the fastfood management and the victims’ decision if they will file charges against Gamban./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON

FORMER COP SHOT

A RETIRED policeman was found with a gunshot wound in the head along a road in barangay Mabolo, Cebu City yesterday morning.

The circumstances surrounding the shooting of retired SPO4 Wilfredo Espina have yet to be established.

Espina was assigned at the records section of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) when he retired from service in 2005.

The victim remains in critical condition at the Perpetual Succour Hospital, said SPO1 Jay Yballe, chief investigator of the homicide section of CCPO.

A security guard of a nearby establishment told police that he heard a thud before he saw people asking for help after a bloodied man was found in the area.

The security guard called the Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation (ERUF) which brought the retired policeman to the hospital.

A .38 revolver with five bullets and an empty shell in its chamber was found near the victim./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON