JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL. The slain traffic aide’s wife hopes that police will soon arrest the suspects of the shooting. (CDN FILE PHOTO)
About 200 Cebu City traffic personnel joined a motorcade to honor the slain 40-year-old traffic enforcer Michael Garces who was laid to rest at the Queen City Memorial Garden yesterday.
His wife Maria Riza said she hopes that the police can speed up their investigation on the case.
“Maayo unta kung mapadali ang investigation, ma-identify na ang suspects aron ma-serve na ang justice (It would be good if the investigation can be sped up so the suspects can be arrested and justice can be served),” Maria Riza said.
Garces was supposed to mark his 14 years in service next month. He left four young kids and his wife who is unemployed.
Rey Gealon, Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) executive director, said the motorcade started from St. Peter’s Imus and dropped by at the CCTO office in Ramos St. before heading to Sto. Rosario Parish for the Funeral Mass.
Most of them wore their green uniforms and rode on motorcycles.
Last April 16, Garces went home to bring dinner to his three kids in their house in Barangay Sambag II, Cebu City when he was shot by two unidentified men about 50 meters from his home. He was supposed to fetch his wife and their youngest daughter when the incident happened.
Garces succumbed to a fatal gunshot wound in his right armpit after the bullet exited on the left side of his body, hitting his heart.
Police have yet to determine if the killing was job related.