INQUIRER FILES
COTABATO CITY 鈥� Police in this city have filed murder and frustrated murder聽charges against a construction聽worker who allegedly shot dead a site engineer at KCC Mall of Cotabato on Wednesday afternoon.
Col. Jibin Bongcayao, Cotabato City police director, said Engr. Roland Duga-an, 50, a resident of Pagadian City, was shot by the suspect聽about 3 p.m.聽Wednesday聽on the second floor of the聽shopping mall that was still under construction.
The suspect identified only as 鈥淎lias Ali,鈥� was arrested after co-workers pointed him out as the gunman who shot Dagu-an in the head and body.
Bongcayao said Dagu-an was giving instructions to a lady engineer, who would assume administrative functions at the construction site, when the suspect appeared from behind and shot him. 聽Dagu-an died on the spot.
鈥淗e tried to escape but co-workers聽pointed to him as the gunman,鈥� Bongcayao said of the suspect now detained at Police Station 1 detention facility.
Captain Rustan Dea帽o, Police Station 1 chief, said another worker named Rheno delos Santos, who hailed from聽 General Santos City, was hit by a stray bullet聽on his leg but was already聽recovering in the hospital.
An hour聽after Dagu-an鈥檚 shooting, a security guard of RD Pawnshop along Macacua Street, Cotabato City was shot and injured by a still unidentified gunman.
Dominic Villa, 51, a resident of Barangay Poblacion 7 here, was on duty at RD Pawnshop when a lone gunman approached him and opened fire. He was hit in his abdomen and arm but is now in stable condition at the hospital.