2 Laoag City scrap buyers hurt in shooting incident

By Bernardo B. Ver II

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LAOAG CITY—Two scrap buyers from this city were hurt from a shooting incident on June 16, 2019 near the city’s dumpsite.

The victims were identified as Wilmer Tabillas Domingo, 39 years old and Robin Acidera Morgado, 36 years old. Both are residents of Barangay 29 in this city.

Police reports said that around 10:30 am, the victims were going out of the dumpsite after dumping their garbage. Several minutes when they were already outside the dumpsite riding on an improvised tricycle, they spotted two unidentified suspects and one of them fired a gun at them.

The victims tried to flee but the perpetrators followed them and fired once more which caused them to stop suddenly. The suspects escaped towards the road going to Vintar, Ilocos Norte.

The Laoag police station received the information and immediately responded to the crime scene and launched an entrapment operation against the suspects.

Messrs. Domingo and Morgado were rushed to the Governor Roque B. Ablan, Sr. Memorial Hospital for treatment.

The police’s scene of the crime operation (SOCO) unit recovered four fired cartridge cases and one fired bullet in the crime scene. They still need to verify the gun used through a ballistic examination of the bullets they found at the scene.

The Laoag police is looking for possible CCTV footage near or around the crime scene.

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