Crips gangmen shoot 13-year-old member

If you think that becoming a member of a gang can protect you from them, you’re very wrong.

A 13-year-old high school student, who is allegedly a member of the Crips gang, was shot by members of his gang Saturday night in Sitio Palce Side, barangay Sambag II, Cebu City.

He is now fighting for life at the Con Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center due to a lone gunshot wound in his head.

Antonio Maravelez, who lives in a adjacent room reported that he heard a lone gunshot from the next room prompting him to verify what it was all about.

When he got out of his room, Maravelez said that he saw five youngsters running out of the house and the next thing he saw was the young man bleeding on the floor.

He raised a call for help and neighbors brought the young boy to the hospital.

SPO2 Serafin Asingjo, who responded to the alarm, said that the gang members were reportedly fighting among themselves when the shooting happened.

He recovered a paltik revolver containing two live ammunition and an empty shell of a cal. 38 from the crime scene.

Barangay Captain Carl Belarmino said they have also conducted their own investigation and the said scene of the crime is reportedly a popular meeting place of Crips gang members.

The house where the shooting happened is being rented out by Boy Becada.

Another shooting alarm was reported at M.J. Cuenco Ave., cor F. Villa st., Cebu City early yesterday.

Allegedly involved in the incident are five youths and two men, who were their victims.

Twent six-year old Jeferson Guaca of Poblacion Oriental, Consolacion, Cebu sustained a gunshot wound on his back which exited on his stomach after he was shot by unidentified men also suspected by the police as members of the Crips gang.

The other victim, 20-year old Marlon Paloma was wounded on his left cheek, both of them were taken to Cebu City Medical Center.

The victims alleged that they were walking together with 24-year old Bernard Saraoso when they were shot at by the group of youngsters without any provocation.

The assailants fled towards T. Padilla Street after the shooting.  — Niña Chrismae G. Sumacot/NLQ