Pubdate: Mon, 30 Jan 2006
Source: Sun.Star Cebu (Philippines)
Copyright: 2006 Sun.Star
Contact:  http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1690
Author: Allan I. Varquez
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2 LOREGA BROTHERS GUNNED DOWN

TWO brothers died and a 10-year-old boy was wounded in a
vigilante-style shooting inside a house in Barangay Lorega-San Miguel,
Cebu City last night.

Both shot in the head, brothers Rodrigo and Roderick Legaspi had no
criminal record, but police believe that the assailants were after
Rodrigo because of his alleged involvement in the drug trade.

Roderick, 29, was shot because he tried to help his brother. The boy,
Roderick's son, was hit in the wrist while hiding with Rodrigo in a
room.

SPO1 Jay Yballe of the Homicide Section said the two can be included
in the list of victims in vigilante-style attacks, which the Cebu
Archdiocese and different sectors have criticized as "senseless,
unmotivated and deplorable."

The Legaspi brothers are the 116th victims since the attacks started
on Dec. 22, 2004.

The gunman was on a maroon C-100 Honda motorcycle driven by another
person, but witnesses could not identify them because they covered
their faces with handkerchiefs and wore helmets.

Yballe said that shortly before 7 last night, Rodrigo, 31, was walking
on the main barangay road and about to turn right in an alley going to
his house some 20 meters away, when a motorcycle stopped near him.

Sensing danger, Rodrigo ran but the gunman got off the motorcycle and
followed him.

Rodrigo reached his house and asked his brother to close the door.
Roderick was in the doorway and was about to close the door when the
gunman shot him twice in the head.

As he fell, the culprit went straight to the room on the ground floor
where Rodrigo hid together with Roderick's son. Inside the room, the
gunman shot Rodrigo in the head. The boy (name withheld, being a
minor) got hit in the right wrist.

Both Rodrigo and Roderick died instantly, while the boy was rushed to
the Cebu City Medical Center. (AIV) 
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