Just read this story and it happened so soon after the guy from Sweden being killed.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
British man shot dead in Minglanilla robbery
ANOTHER foreigner was held up and killed by robbers, this time in Minglanilla town.
British national Luke Issacs, 42, died of five bullet wounds in the head and body at Minglanilla District Hospital Tuesday night.
He was reportedly shot in the presence of his Filipina wife, Risa, by one of three robbers for refusing to hand over his bag bearing P7,000 cash.
PO3 Neil Mansueto of the homicide section said the couple was walking by the roadside to buy grilled chicken in Barangay Lipata when approached by an unidentified person at around 6:40 p.m. Witnesses reportedly saw the man alight from a black motorcycle boarded by two other men.
The suspect suddenly grabbed Issacs’ bag. He resisted and the two struggled.
Getting no chance to grab the bag, the robber reportedly pulled out a handgun and shot the victim five times, fatally hitting him in the head, chest and lower abdomen, Mansueto said.
The shooting reportedly occurred near the San Roque Parish Church and in the presence of the victim’s wife.
Recovered at the scene were three 9mm empty shells and a deformed slug.
The suspects then sped off aboard their motorcycle, leaving behind the wounded foreigner and his wife.
The murder happened barely four days after lawmen found the charred remains of a Swedish national, his wife and two children inside their two-story house in Sibonga, Cebu.
Homicide probers believed that it could be a case of arson with robbery and multiple homicide.
Police are looking into a report that three men who figured in a mishap at the national highway in Talisay City could be the robbers of Issacs.
The men reportedly boarded a Yamaha motorcycle that collided with a Honda motorcycle (4655GB) driven by Dindo delos Angeles at 9:30 p.m.
At press time, police had no data yet on the men’s identities and their Yamaha motorcycle’s plate number.
Traffic enforcer Joshua Cabahug said the collision occurred after the Yamaha motorcycle suddenly made a left turn in the highway.
This resulted in a collision between the two motorcycles that injured delos Angeles, who was taken to the Talisay City District Hospital.
Police could not say if the three persons riding the Yamaha motorcycle also suffered injuries because they sped off towards the highway’s interior area.
This raised suspicion that they could be the same persons who robbed and killed the British national in Minglanilla. (GC)
