Pubdate: Tue, 02 Aug 2005
Source: Sun.Star Cebu (Philippines)
Copyright: 2005 Sun.Star
Contact:  http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1690
Author: JST
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77 Unsolved Murders Prod Cops To Seek Public Help

The ever rising number of people being killed vigilante-style has 
alarmed the Cebu City Police Office, prompting acting Director Melvin 
Gayotin to appeal to the public to help the police in running after 
the perpetrators.

"It is already alarming but without the cooperation of the public, we 
will have difficulty solving the problem," Gayotin told reporters yesterday.

Last night, a summary execution was reported in Toledo City.

Nobelito Tarongoy and Richard Lazaga were walking by the roadside in 
Laray 1, Barangay Pobla-cion when two men on a motorcycle fatally shot them.

Drugs

SPO1 Victor Alcover told Sun.Star Cebu that witnesses said the two 
men were linked to drugs.

Tarongoy did not make it alive to the Toledo City hospital. His 
companion Lazaga suffered the same fate in Vicente Sotto Memorial 
Medical Center in Cebu City.

No other details were available as of press time.

Here in Cebu City, Gayotin said the homicide section and the 
intelligence section are exerting all efforts in the investigation, 
particularly in determining the identities of the gunmen involved in 
the vigilante-style killings.

The number of victims-some of them suspected criminals and drug 
suspects-killed since Dec. 22 has now reached 77. And these all 
remain unsolved.

The latest fatalities were identified as Rudolfo "Ondo" Druhom, 44, 
and Marlon "Bobby" Adulfo, 33. They were shot by four men, two of 
them armed with a .45 pistol and an M16 Rifle, at 1:20 a.m. Sunday in 
Sitio Maaslom, Barangay Busay, Cebu City.

The perpetrators, who arrived in tandem on motorcycles, wore bonnets 
to conceal their identities, Barangay Busay Captain Eliodoro "Yody" 
Sanches told reporters.

Homicide investigator Jay Yballe and his team are still conducting a 
background check on the victims but the families of Druhom and 
Adulfo, in an earlier interview with Sun.Star Cebu, said the two had 
no police record and were never sent to jail.

A check with the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center's records and 
administration section confirmed this.

Libel

A sibling of Druhom, who asked not to be named, called up Sun.Star 
Cebu yesterday and said they plan to file a libel case against 
another local newspaper for tagging Druhom as an ex-convict.

Druhom hailed from Ozamis City and lived in Barangay T. Padilla, 
while Adulfo hailed from Sitio Kalubihan, Lower Busay.

The city jail also has no records of Patricio Calledo Jr., 39, Bambee 
Edar, 21, and Lito Toquero, 28, who were gunned down in separate 
incidents last Friday and Saturday.
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