CEBU CITY – Cebu road rage suspect David Lim Jr. was granted temporary liberty after posting P144,000 bail yesterday afternoon.
Lim, nephew of controversial businessman Peter Lim, whom President Duterte accused of being a drug lord, posted the bail set by the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office after spending two nights in jail.
Assistant Prosecutor Maria Theresa Casiño found probable cause to charge the 28-year-old suspect with frustrated homicide and illegal possession of ammunition and set the bail at P24,000 and P120,000, respectively.
The police originally filed frustrated murder charges against Lim, whose family is one of the richest in Cebu, but Casiño downgraded it to frustrated homicide, saying the element of treachery was not proven.
“A judicial examination of the evidence at hand would show that there are not sufficient basis to prove the existence of any of the circumstances stated therein (murder case),” said Casiño whose resolution was approved by Cebu City Prosecutor Liceria Lofranco-Rabillas.
Lim is accused of shooting 33-year-old nurse Ephraim Nuñal. A video of the Sunday incident has since made rounds online.
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña assigned controversial SPO1 Adonis Dumpit as additional police detail for Nuñal even as the mayor clarified that the victim has not received any threat.
Cebu City Councilor David Tumulak, the deputy mayor for police matters, said they have requested for security for the two witnesses in the incident. (Mars W. Mosqueda Jr.)