Injured | Killed |
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9 | 8 |
Date: 04 January 2013
Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/335069/my-ninong-shot-me
Gunman fired at anyone on sight; 8 dead, 9 hurt
By Maricar Cinco
Inquirer Southern Luzon
“Baril ako Ninong (Godfather shot me).”
That was the first thing 4-year-old Ken Cedric Caimol told his grandmother after the shooting. His sister KC was also shot.
The two children were wounded but survived. Their sister Micaela, 7, did not. She was hit in the chest when Ken’s godfather, Ronald Baquiran Bae, shot them with a .45-caliber 1911 pistol Friday morning.
Bae, 41, shot and killed eight other people and wounded nine others, including Ken Cedric and KC Caimol and two other children, before he himself was killed in a gun battle with police.
It was unclear why Bae, who contested and lost an election for village chair in Barangay Tabon I in Kawit town, Cavite province, in 2010, went on a rampage.
But his rage reminded residents of Tabon I of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in the United States, where 20 schoolchildren and six adults lost their lives on Dec. 14.
Like the Newtown gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who committed suicide as police arrived, Bae went around shooting people coolly.
“He walked casually, without any word or any facial expression,” said witness Willy Salvador, a resident of the area…