I THANK GOD FOR MY SECOND LIFE!

I was on my way going home from my work that usually ends at 11:30 PM. I arrived at the tricycle terminal station and then i took the next tricycle bound for Bagong Silangan, the place where I live. I really don't like to be seated at the extension seat inside the sidecar of the tricycle for the place is to narrow. But i have no option since the seat at the back of the driver was already occupied. For me it was just a normal night, I do this routine every night except during my day off. I was tired that time and almost fell asleep when suddenly the tricycle stopped. I don't know what exactly happened in front of us since i was inside and facing the entrance of the sidecar. Then suddenly i heard gun shots. At first i thought it was just a firecracker, but who could have done that this month? Suddenly i got outside the tricycle to see what happened. And what i saw was several young men running away and a man holding a gun going to the place where i was standing trying to hide(later i found out that he was a policeman). He was also one of the passengers behind the tricycle driver. It was then i realized that i was in the middle of the gun fire and that those running were the young men who are trying to rob us. I was so afraid especially when i saw "sumpak," an improvised gun and a wounded man lying in the street (who eventually died later on). I also saw a car behind us trying to get away from the scene. What i did was to ran away, afraid that those young men might get back to us. I started to touch my body to check if i got wounded and thank God I was safe but not the one passenger. I heard the tricycle driver saying that the dead man was the passenger seated behind him. I just walk away from the place where the robbery took place, trying to calm myself and also reflecting that It could have been me who's lying dead on the street. I felt sorry for the dead passenger but thankful that I'm alive. I rode a tricycle going to my place and there were already policemen and media from TV 5 covering the incident. I arrived home safe this time. Fresh from my mind about what happened - i reflected about life. I prayed and thank God for the second life He gave me.




Medal eyed for cop who foiled robbery
By JEFFREY DAMICOG
March 6, 2011, 3:22pm

(Report from Manila Bulletin)



MANILA, Philippines - A 16-year-old robber and a passenger were killed while an off-duty policeman was wounded during a foiled hold-up conducted by a group of youths on the passengers of a tricycle in Quezon City before dawn yesterday.

Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Ariel Capocao, deputy chief of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Inves-tigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU), said that recommendations have been made to give PO1 Santos Osorio a medal for his actions.

Capocao said that Osorio, who is assigned to the Regional Mobile Group of the National Capital Re¬gion Police Office (NCRPO-RMG), managed to kill one of the robbers despite being shot and hurt.

The police official identified the young dead robber as Rey Joseph Bartolome, 16, a resident of No. 8 Sampaguita St., Dama de Noche, Barangay Payatas, Quezon City.

Capocao said that Bartolome was the only one armed with an improvised shotgun among seven other male youths during an attempted holdup of a tricycle at around 1 a.m. yesterday along Sampaguita St., Dama de Noche, Barangay Payatas.

Bartolome shot Osorio as well as killed a passenger identified as Agosto Violata, a resident of Barangay Bagong Silangan, Quezon City. Violata died on the spot.

Capocao said that Osorio was already off-duty in civilian clothes and was on his way home at No. 98 Springfield St., in Payatas A, Quezon City.

Osorio and Violata were both riding behind the tricycle driver while three other passengers were aboard the sidecar when the robbery took place.

Capocao said that a group of youths blocked the path of the tricycle and declared a holdup.

For no reason, Bartolome suddenly fired a shot at the direction of Osorio and Violata. Violata sustained multiple gunshot wounds while the policeman sustained gunshot wounds in left leg and left side of his torso.



2 patay, 1 sugatan sa Payatas hold-up
(News from REMATE)


PATAY ang dalawa katao, habang isa ang sugatan sa panghoholdap sa isang tricycle sa Payatas Quezon City.

Sinabi ni Senior Police Officer (SPO) 1 Remo Duro ng Quezon City Police Station Six na bandang 1:00 ng madaling-araw nang harangin ng pitong kabataang lalaki na armado ng sumpak ang tricycle na may mga pasahero, papunta ng Barangay Bagong Silangan.

Nang malaman umano ng mga suspek na pulis ang isa sa mga pasahero ng tricycle ay agad nagpaputok ang mga ito na ikinamatay ng pasaherong si Agusto Vilota.

Gumanti naman ng putok ang pulis na si Police Officer 1 Osorio Santos ng National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) Regional Mobile Group at napatay ang isa sa mga suspek na si Rey Joseph Bartolome.

Nagtamo naman ng tama ng bala sa binti si Santos ngunit ligtas ang ibang pasahero ng tricycle at driver nito. Remate Online






2 killed, cop hurt in QC robbery try
Report from Dennis Datu, dzMM TeleRadyo: ABS-CBN NEWS


QUEZON CITY, Philippines – Two people were killed while a police officer was wounded when armed men tried to rob tricycle passengers in Quezon City early Sunday morning, police said.

Seven men armed with homemade guns blocked a tricycle carrying several passengers around 1 a.m. in Payatas, according to Senior Police Officer 1 Remo Duro.

One of the passengers, however, was a police officer.

The robbers apparently panicked and fired their guns, killing passenger Agusto Vilota.

PO1 Osorio Santos, who was one of the passengers, immediately returned fire and killed one of the suspects, identified as Rey Joseph Bartolome.

Santos himself was hit in the leg by gunfire while the other passengers and the driver were unharmed.

The robbers, who have yet to be identified, escaped, according to police investigators.


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