Pubdate: Fri, 06 Aug 2004
Source: Mindanao Times (Philippines)
Copyright: 2004 Mindanao Times.
Contact:  http://www.mindanaotimes.com.ph/
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Author: Asa

GAS STATION WORKER SHOT BY HITMEN

Summary executions continue. Yesterday morning, vigilante hitmen claimed 
another victim, this time a gas station employee in Agdao district.

Eduardo Timtim, of Del Pilar Extension, Agdao, an employee of Caltex branch 
in Sasa, was the 58th person to be killed this year.

Timtim was driving his Honda motorcycle at around 6:30 a.m. yesterday on 
his way to his workplace when three suspects waylaid him at corner of 
Tancontian and Sta. Cruz streets in Agdao.

He succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds on different parts of his body.

The suspects reportedly fled on board a trisiboat (motorized tricycle) not 
a motorcycle.

On Wednesday, two persons were also gunned down.

Zaldy Adeque alias Father, 26, a stowaway roaming the Agdao area, was shot 
at around 8:35 p.m. Wednesday night while he was standing outside an eatery 
near the Assumption College of Davao along Cabaguio Avenue in Agdao district.

Reports said Adeque tried to flee towards Villamor Street but the lone 
gunman chased him and pumped more bullets on his body.

Adeque sustained four gunshot wounds and died on the spot.

At 12:45 p.m., Rolando Custodio alias Dodong, 31, of Esquatan, Toril 
district, allegedly a proprietor of several flower shops in the city, was 
killed.

Reports reaching the Toril police station showed that Custodio was standing 
near a car wash, a few meters away from their house, when four men on board 
two motorcycles arrived and the two who rode pillion simultaneously shot him.

The first burst of gunfire missed, giving Custodio the  chance to run and 
seek for cover.

He was however trapped inside an eatery where the two triggermen chased him 
and shot him again several times.

The victim was rushed to the nearby St. John Hospital but he was declared 
dead on arrival by attending physicians.

It was learned that his name appeared twice - Rolando Custodio and Dodong 
Custodio - on the list of 500 personalities mentioned by Mayor Rodrigo 
Duterte in his television program on October 21, 2001 to be involved in 
illegal drugs.

Reports also said the victim was the "Mr. C" Duterte was referring to early 
this year as a big-time drug pusher in Toril.
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