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BY RUBY SILUBRICO
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ILOILO City – A seafarer was detained at the Mandurriao police station lockup cell for shooting an 18-year-old lad yesterday.
The 35-year-old Jonathan Lozada of Barangay Daanbanwa, Lambunao, Iloilo turned himself in to the police.
The victim, Vincent Albert Tan of Barangay Ticud, La Paz district, was allegedly part of a group of young people the police called “Shoktong Gang.”
The shooting happened around 3:45 a.m. in Barangay San Rafael, Mandurriao, said Inspector Juan Atigaronita.
Lozada and 29-year-old nephew Robert Angelo were onboard their pickup vehicle when they saw Tan’s group chasing a group of gay men.
Thinking there was a rumble, Lozada, who was driving the pickup, pulled over and tried to mediate.
Tan fired at Lozada but the nephew, who was at the passenger seat, was the one hit on the right shoulder, Atigaronita said.
“This prompted Lozada to shoot Tan on the forehead,” the police officer said.
Tan was declared dead at the Iloilo Doctors’ Hospital in Molo while the younger Lozada was confined at the district hospital in Lambunao./PN
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