A 3-YEAR-OLD boy was shot dead last Sunday in Magcagong, Sibonga, south Cebu.
Dove Sarsona was declared dead by attending doctors in Don Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center after he was shot in his back, which pierced through his stomach.
Initial police investigation revealed that around 9 p.m., Dove’s mother, Maria Lyn Sasona, heard a gunshot coming from their house while she was conversing with Dove’s grandmother in a sari-sari store.
Maria Lyn told police that she saw their neighbor Marlou Dela Rosa, 24, fleeing their house after she heard the gunshot.
Police said Maria Lyn immediately ran inside their house to check on Dove whom she left sleeping in bed covered by a mosquito net.
Dove was rushed to the Deiparine Medical Clinic and was later brought to Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, where he was declared dead on arrival.
In a follow-up operation, police arrested Dela Rosa in his uncle’s house in Magcagong.
Dela Rosa, who denied Maria Lyn’s allegations, was the brother of Renante dela Rosa, the inmate who escaped from the Cebu Detention and Rehabilitation Center last Oct. 20.
In a TV interview, Maria Lyn said Dela Rosa possibly held grudges against their family, which led him to killing her son. Ongoing investigation is done by the police./rhea ruth rosell