Four people, including a woman, were injured in what seem to be a scene from an action film involving three unidentified men in Cebu City’s mountain barangays Sunday night.
The victims were identified as Eleanor Rivera, Gazoni Alingano, Julius Capuno and Ramil Abatayo.
The three men allegedly flagged down a taxi Sunday afternoon on D. Jakosalem St., Cebu City.
The driver Elenito Catalla said the men asked him to take them to Minglanilla town where one of the passengers alighted and boarded a motorcycle which was waiting for her.
The remaining passengers told him to follow the motorcycle which was going to barangay Mohon in Talisay City.
Upon reaching a gasoline station in Pooc, the passengers declared a holdup and forcibly took his taxi unit.
Police said the taxicab with license plate number CEH-347 was taken to barangay Tabunan, Cebu City about 10 p.m. where they accidentally hit a motorcycle driven by Alibango with Capuno as pillion rider.
Both were thrown off. One of the men who took the cab approached Capuno and asked him to surrender his gun.
When Capuno said he had none, he was shot in the stomach.
Abatayo who saw the victims, stopped his car purportedly to offer help to the victims.
But when he approached the victims, one of the suspects pistol-whipped him in the head.
The suspects abandoned the cab and took Abatayo’s motorcycle.
They then went to Ayala Heights where they saw a Chevrolet SUV car (JEC-386) parked by the roadside.
Rivera, who just came from her farm with her house help were about to board the SUV when the men approached them.
One of the men shot Rivera in the chest and commandeered the SUV leaving the motorcycle behind.
They proceeded to barangay Babag where they carjacked another motorcycle driven by John Paul Zamora.
The suspects went to barangay Bonbon where they commandeered a Multicab and proceeded to Plaza Housing in barangay Busay where they abandoned the Multicab and took a jeepney in going to Cebu City.
Police investigators believe that the motive was robbery as Rivera’s cash amounting to P50,000 which was in her car was missing.