Three men die in weekend shootings

Three men were shot dead  in separate incidents over the weekend.

Jinito Quezon, 38, was walking home after a drinking spree at the Danao Public Market when he was shot dead by unidentified men in Tuburan Sur, Danao City, northern Cebu, last Saturday.

Police said residents heard four bursts of gunfire around 11 p.m. but no witnesses came forward to shed light on the crime.

Police said the tricycle  driver’s body was discovered by a helper at St. Thomas Learning Center  near the school’s back gate  around 5:30 a.m. last Sunday.

Police said a personal grudge could be the motive of the crime. The victim, who survived a stabbing incident years ago,  would boast when he had too much to drink.

In Toledo City, southwest Cebu, a drinking spree turned bloody when Dante Manolong was shot dead  in barangay Biga last Sunday.

Police said Manolong, 42,  and his neighbors were drinking outside his sari-sari store around 10 p.m. when a  man arrived and shot Manolong in the head for no apparent reason.

Police said Manolong was once shot by his live-in partner’s relative but survived in 2009, and that he would run amok when he gets drunk.

Police are still investigating the motive of the crime.

In  Liloan town, northern Cebu, Vicente Casida of barangay Catarman was rushed to a Cebu City hospital after he was shot and injured by two men on board a motorcycle last Sunday morning.

Police said the wounded Casida ran away and hid from the suspects, who fled on a blue-and-white-colored motorcycle.

The case is under investigation. Reporter Rhea Ruth Rosell and Correspondent Norman Mendoza