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Date: 21 July 2013
Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/450893/police-files-473#ixzz2aIr18lyL
A man died while another is recuperating in the hospital in separate shooting incidents in Lapu-Lapu City.
Martin Beltran, 43, died in the Mactan Doctors Hospital after sustaining gunshot wounds in the abdomen and right arm in sitio Mangal, barangay Punta Engano, Lapu-Lapu City last Sunday afternoon. Police identified the suspect as Ferdinand Castro, a neighbor of the victim.
In another incident, Ian Rex Cosep, 21, of purok Papaya, barangay Gun-ob was hit in the body when a neighbor went berserk during a drinking spreee.
The suspect Emigdio Dagatan, 53, had an altercation with Ian’s father Bienvenido. When Dagatan opened fire, Cosep was hit in the left shoulder. Responding police arrested Dagatan and confiscated from him a 9mm Beretta pistol with 13 live bullets.
Cosep is now recuperating in the Lapu-Lapu City Hospital./Correspondent Norman V. Mendoza