Six persons were killed while three others were wounded in three separate shooting incidents in Quezon City over the weekend, police disclosed.
Supt. Rodel Marcelo, chief of the Quezon City Police District-Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit based in Camp Karingal, said four victims were killed on Golden Hillls St., Barangay Payatas.
Marcelo identified the victims as Criselda Chua, Anthony Salazar, Leo Barba, and Tirso Cervantez.
Barangay watchmen were informed by a concerned citizen that a shooting incident took place on Golden Hills St.
They went to the area and found the bodies of the victims riddled with bullet inside a shanty.
Scene-of-the-Crime Operatives collected from the crime scene drug paraphernalia and 13 pieces of fired cartridge cases and four pieces of deformed fired bullets for a caliber .45 pistol.
The two other shooting incidents in which two males were killed were recorded in Barangays Holy Spirit and Bahay Toro. (Francis T. Wakefield)