A WOMAN allegedly shot herself in the head after an argument with her live-in partner, a policeman, in their house in barangay Pusok, Lapu-Lapu City on Thursday night.
Police said the couple Luna Patok and PO1 Ronaldo Decatoria argued after the woman suspected that the policeman was seeing someone else.
Decatoria is assigned at the City Public Safety Company (CPSC) in Cebu City.
According to the victim’s 25-year-old sister Ayen Patok, Luna saw some text messages in the policeman’s cellphone that irked her.
When the couple argued, the woman grabbed the policeman’s belt bag and locked herself in a room.
The bag contained the policeman’s Glock 9mm service firearm.
Ayen said she and Decatoria repeatedly knocked on the door and persuaded the woman to open it. A gunshot later rang out. The woman was found inside the room bloodied. She was brought to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City where she later died.
PO3 Lydo Pinos, homicide investigator of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office, said there were no signs of foul play in the woman’s death.
In a separate incident in Lapu-Lapu, a 48-year-old tricycle driver was fatally shot yesterday morning.
Hydelito Esmalyn was standing by the road when motorcycle-riding assailants shot him in barangay Looc.
The victim suffered gunshot wounds in the head, chest, shoulder and arms.
Police recovered seven spent shells of a .45 caliber pistol from the crime scene.
Police said a love triangle is being looked into as possible motive of the attack. The investigation is still in progress.