Police officers investigate the crime scene where a patient, Wilfredo Sabonsolin shot his orthopedic doctor while on his wheelchair inside a clinic at the Sacred Heart hospital, Thursday morning. Sabonsolin also killed himself. (CDN PHOTO/ LITO TECSON)
An orthopedic surgeon was fatally shot by his wheelchair-bound patient in his clinic at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Cebu City past 9 a.m. Thursday.
Cris Cecil Abbu succumbed to a gunshot wound in the chest .
The assailant was identified as Wilfredo Sabonsolin, 72, who committed suicide after killing the doctor, police said.
Witness said Sabonsolin was talking to the doctor when he suddenly drew a .380 revolver and shot Abbu.
Sabonsolin then shot himself in the temple.
Abbu was rushed to the hospital’s emergency room where he died at 10:30 a.m.
Saponsolin had gone spine operation four times.
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