DISABLED MAN STABS NEIGHBOR
A WHEELCHAIR-bound man stabbed and wounded his neighbor in barangay Lahug, Cebu City.
Police said Ramil Ocaña tried to escape after stabbing Monching Lintag, 49, but since he couldn’t walk well, police easily caught up with him.
Initial police investigation showed that Ocaña and Jeffrey Talabino argued around 8 p.m. last Wednesday.
Lintag pacified the two men but Ocaña turned his anger on him and stabbed him in the body.
Ocaña had a different version of the incident.
He said he lost his cool when the two men taunted him for being disabled.
“I could no longer bear it,” said Ocaña in Cebuano.
Ocaña said he became wheelchair-bound after he was shot in the legs in 2004./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON
GIRL FOUND DEAD OFF PINAMUNGAJAN
THE body of an epileptic girl was found floating in the waters off barangay Lamac, Pinamungajan town, southwest Cebu, last Wednesday.
The fatality was identified as Lorena Taño, 16.
Her mother told police that on Tuesday night, the girl asked her permission to go to the seashore.
The girl failed to return home.
Her body was found the next morning by Jolitno Navales, a barangay tanod.
The body will be autopsied to determine the cause of death, said police./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC