ILOILO – A 19-year-old lad playing with a gun shot his Grade 9 friend in Leon, Iloilo. The friend, a 16-year-old lad, died.
The shooting happened on Jan. 18 at the house of the school principal of Leon Central Elementary School, George Callarga, 50.
The victim was a scholar of the elementary school principal at Buga National High School in Leon and was staying at his benefactor’s house in Barangay Poblacion, Leon.
The 10-year-old boy, on the other hand, was doing errands for the principal.
At the time of the shooting around 10 p.m., Callarga was not in the house, according to the Police Captain Felix Perez, Leon police chief.
The Grade 9 student was hit on the left thigh.
According to Perez, the gun – a .40 pistol – was kept in a drawer and the boys managed to find it.
The victim was taken to the Aleosan District Hospital where he died.
Responding policemen recovered the .40 pistol.
The suspect was detained at the Leon police station. He faces a homicide charge./PN