Trike driver, tanod killed in Lapu-Lapu shootings

A tricycle driver and a barangay tanod were killed in separate shooting incidents in Lapu-Lapu City.

Gerald Magsigay, 32, was fatally shot allegedly by his neighbor in barangay Basak around 3 p.m. last Friday.

Police identified the suspect as Gerry Canlong, who fled after the attack,

Prior to the shooting, Canlong confronted the tricycle driver whom he accused of breaking his helmet.

Magsigay denied any wrongdoing. During the confrontation, Canlong pulled out a gun and fired two shots to the ground.

The victim went home a few hours after the confrontation.

He had just alighted from his tricycle near  his house when a man shot him in the head.

Witnesses told police that the suspect was seen fleeing from the crime scene after the attack, said PO2 Ruel Cutanda.

Relatives rushed the victim to the Mactan Doctors’ Hospital where he later died.

In barangay Gun-ob, 28-year-old Pip Niño Sollano was shot and killed while walking along a road past 1 a.m. yesterday.

The victim was a member of the Gun-ob Special Action Team.

Police said no one saw the assailant. Personal grudges could be the motive of the attack, said police.

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