A 23-YEAR-OLD MAN was seriously wounded after he was shot by his live-in partner’s uncle in barangay Lawaan III, Talisay City, southern Cebu.
Joseph Karl Fuentes Algabre, native of Argao town, sustained a gunshot wound in the right ear.
The victim’s live-in partner told police that Fuentes and the alleged assailant Lovewen Cabusas, 29, have been at odds.
Police said the man was walking along a road in sitio Crusher Thursday when someone called out his name.
Burst of gunfire broke out.
A bloodied Fuentes was later found slumped on the ground. The victim was taken to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City.
Cabusas could no longer be located after the attack, police said./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON
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