Valenzuela cops hunting guard who shot teenager looking for job

The police are hunting down a security guard at a construction site who shot dead an 18-year-old job seeker accused of trespassing in Valenzuela City last Thursday.

On Saturday, Ruffo Valdez—father of victim Joshua Valdez—filed murder charges against Ramon Gabitan, 25, a security guard of HS Security and Investigative Agency who was assigned at the HC Positive Plus commercial center which is undergoing construction at the Valdez Compound in Paso de Blas.

“My son only wanted a new job to buy his 2-year-old son the bicycle he was promised for Christmas. Now he’s gone,” the older Valdez said.

“We hope to give [my son] justice. Nobody has offered us any help, including the family of the suspect,” he added.

According to PO3 Ronald Sobosa, case investigator of the Valenzuela police station, the younger Valdez went to the construction site around 12:30 p.m. last Thursday with his younger brother and friend to apply for a job. Gabitan, however, accosted them and threatened to shoot them with his 12-gauge shotgun.

Out of fear, the three ran away, but Gabitan fired his shotgun and hit the victim in the back of the head. He was rushed to the Valenzuela Medical Center where he was declared dead after about four hours, PO3 Rigor Germedia said.

Sobosa said Gabitan immediately went into hiding after the incident.