COTABATO CITY --- A 50-year-old man
was killed and two were injured in a shootout along a busy thoroughfare here
last January 15 I n the afternoon.
Maj.
Glenn Mar Avisa, City Police Station 1 chief, said the shootout started around
3:20 p.m. along Rajah Tabunaway Boulevard, particularly in front of Nurharris
Junk Shop, where a man alighted from a Honda Civic car and shot Johnity Kubato,
39, of Rosary Heights 7, this city.
Avisa
said the alleged suspects have been identified as Suharto Kasim Panalangin, 32,
driver of the Honda sedan, and Asraf Bajunaid, 50, both from this city.
Quoting
witnesses, Avisa said the armed Kubato, despite his injuries, also traded shots
with the suspects in the car as they sped off toward Jose Lim Street from Rajah
Tabunaway Boulevard.
“Kubato
chased Panalangin and Bajunaid and traded shots with them until the car stopped
in the middle of the road,” Avisa said.
Police from Station 1, located two
blocks away, took the injured Kubato and Panalangin to the Cotabato Regional
and Medical Center while the slain Bajunaid was left at the back seat of the
car.
Investigators
found two .45-caliber pistols and empty shells inside the car.
“Investigators
are also looking into documents of the car that has a police commemorative
license plate at its rear,” Avisa said.
Avisa
believed that the shootout was triggered by a personal grudge. (EDWIN
FERNANDEZ, PNA - COTABATO, MINDANAO EXPOSE')
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