A PENSION house owner who checked into another pension house was gunned down by unidentified motorcycle-riding assailants in barangay San Nicholas, Cebu City,\u00a0 Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Rolando Heramil Pelina, 53, died of\u00a0 several gunshot wounds in the body.\u00a0 He owned\u00a0 the Errol Pension House in Panganiban Street, Cebu City.<\/p>\n
PO3 Michael Codaste of the Cebu City police said Pelina was shot in front of West View Pension House at corner Macupa and Sabellanos Streets.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0 assailants sped away after the\u00a0 attack.<\/p>\n
Pension House security guard Ernesto Chavez Colot told investigators that he was able to greeted the businessman just before the gunmen arrived on a black motorcycle.<\/p>\n
The back rider got off the motorcycle and shot Pelina in the chest,\u00a0 face\u00a0 and left temple.<\/p>\n
Two empty shells from a .45 pistol and a\u00a0 cell phone were recovered by homicide investigators and Crime Scene Investigation Unit (CSIU) personnel.<\/p>\n
The black\u00a0 motorcycle was later found abandoned at F. Llamas Street, barangay Punta Princesa.<\/p>\n
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said the violence highlighted the need to install closed circuit TV cameras (CCTV) in critical areas in order to identify perpetrators.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want\u00a0 everyone to be vigilant and make it hard for someone\u00a0 to commit make a crime,\u201d Rama said.<\/p>\n
He told police and barangay tanods to be visible in their areas and for\u00a0 businessmen to report any threats they receive to the police. \/Correspondents Chito Aragon and Edison delos Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A PENSION house owner who checked into another pension house was gunned down by unidentified motorcycle-riding assailants in barangay San Nicholas, Cebu City,\u00a0 Tuesday night. Rolando Heramil Pelina, 53, died of\u00a0 several gunshot wounds in the body.\u00a0 He owned\u00a0 the Errol Pension House in Panganiban Street, Cebu City. PO3 Michael Codaste of the Cebu City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242,1227],"tags":[89],"byline":[],"source":[206068],"column":[],"editor":[],"videographer":[],"position":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n