⌛ Policeman shot next to Bethel at apprx 4:30

It has to be said that it seems to be more stuff in the news the last few month, I can't say that I feel more or less endangered than before.

What might happen (like in probably each growing City in the world) is, that Dumaguete attracts more people from other Islands, especially poor ones who dream the "big-city-dream"

in this specific case the 48 year old victim might have a history some years back and leaves behind his wife and 2 kids with 5 and 6 years.

It occurs to me sometimes that some departments are not really ready to deal with situations. That covers many fields here in Dumaguete and other medium-sized growing Cities in the Philippines.

The boulevard in Duma leads in both direction not to upper-class barangays where often some problems occur.
I try to get some more first hand info about that in general through some connections and hope there will be more results than the discussion if the police-scooters should be red, green or black ...

 

This was not the Dumaguete I've lived in before I left that place back in 1986... a lot of criminals have come into this place of "Gentle People" and turned it like Davao or Cebu?

 

If only the real truth about all the killings happened in the city be known, then we all understand why this happening. We can't live our life into century back, and we can't blame the changes that happening around us. It will happened no matter what. We all die , When ,Where ,Why and What will be answered after we died by how we live our life when we still alive.
My condolence to the family .

 

Crowd gathers 45 minutes later (in the afternoon) as police mark shells casings etc. The red gas tank of the victim's motorcycle lying on its' side is visible between the two guys with light blue shirts in the line of people with their backs to the camera

 

Talk about luck! I was right across the street from Bethel to buy some smokes when the shooting happened. I grabbed my digi-cam from my purse and was running to the crime scene and shooting pics even before the police arrived. The victim is not a policeman. He has a history of being linked to the rebel movement but laid low after his breakaway group entered a peace agreement with the government. There should be a link here somewhere to an article about the incident. The victim would be just another statistic, as we call it. No solution at all to extra-judicial killings in Dumaguete, which has become a "fad" for what??? P5,000??? Life is cheap! :(

 

that's the victim's motorbike riddled with 9-mm bullet holes, especially on the fuel tank

 

... and that without climbing a tree or running to a roof-top-window...

anyway, some fractions of the original report here

 

He was not a cop. There's a posted article here on that shooting incident. Many people thought he was a cop as there was a .45 caliber Colt US-government model tucked under his shirt. ;-)

 

thank God i didn't have to climb a tree, or i would have fallen off right away...klutzy me....:D

 

Now I hear the dead guy was known to be a hit man himself..correct-not a policeman btw