Vice mayor's grandson tagged in roadside shooting
Paraffin test was ordered on a grandson of Iloilo Vice Mayor Guillermo De La Llana following yesterday's roadside shooting in Jalandoni Street, Iloilo City Proper.
With scions of prominent families involved, city cops busied themselves rounding up the male youngsters named as either suspect or victim.
In a report, The News Today (TNT) gathered that the group figured in two shooting incidents, the first one at about 1 a.m. and the second, some three hours later.
Operatives of Police Precinct 1 responded to the call made by hospital authorities of Iloilo Doctor's Hospital where one of the wounded, a minor, was brought for emergency treatment.
Inspector Eliezer Baclagon alongside SPO2 Jopson and PO3 Cepe conducted the investigation thereafter where it was then established that a shooting occurred by Fully-Loaded Bar and Restaurant. The 17 year-old victim was with his pal, Ted Plagata, reportedly the son of the Bingawan Mayor another friend, Rey Delgado.
While about to board a motorcyle, shots were fired upon the trio by a group who were on board a Honda City vehicle with car plate number FFS-266. Among those identified were Pat Alvin de la Llana, grandson of the Vice Mayor, one Jay Casabuena and Mark Siegfred.
Yet another vehicle owned by Lee Quimsing was hit.
In the ensuing hot pursuit police operation, a waiter came out and brought by police to the residence of the Vice Mayor where a positive identification of the vice-mayor's grandson was made.
The Vice Mayor in an interview with Bombo Radyo expressed dejection over the incident while saying that in the past, he had tried to mediate and resolve the conflict between the warring groups.
"Kung Dela Llana lang kag Quimsing, ma-areglar ko ugaling kay ang apo ko may kamarada te amo na ina ang indi ko masarangan," he explained while assuring of the family's support and cooperation to the ongoing police probe.
It was not immediately known if charges will be pursued by the victim's family. Police sources said the incident was a continuation of the previous unresolved conflict also figured in by the same personalities.