5 Shells of Shotgun Ended 2 Lives

TMC, CAVITE - Two victims are declared dead on arrival due to sustain multiple gunshot wounds on the different parts of their body and one who is badly injured is now on critical condition.
About 11:35 pm of July 1, 2009, Michael Consumo, 30, caretaker and a resident of Brgy. De Ocampo, Trece Martires City (TMC), Cavite, fraudulently shot the three customers of Pandan Videoker Bar, Brgy. Luciano also of the said city using a 12 gauge shotgun.
The victims are Manuel Atas, 41, Civil Engineer, a resident of Brgy. Inocencio; Modesto Horfilla, 35, government employee, a resident of Brgy. De Ocampo and Roberto Sierra, 44, driver, a resident of Brgy. Aguado.
Consumo together with his companions- Richard Nueva, 22, tricycle driver, and Michael Maxwell, 27, driver, both resident of Brgy. Lapidario are having a drinking binge at the Pandan Videoke Bar, a meter apart from the victims’ table.
One of the victims namely Manuel Atas, appear to be heavily drunk, rose up from his table to went to the comfort room when he was accidentally stumbled by Nueva’s foot. Treating the said accident intentionally done by Nueva, Atas then hit the former an payback attacked and beaten-up Nueva on the face and on the body.
Sierra trying to mediate and calm the two was differently seen by Consumo on his purpose, so the two groups have a fistfight and throwing of glass and bottles of beer ensue. But the mess was later appeased by the operators and workers of the said establishment.
Ten minutes after the suspects leave the place, they return on board with a tricycle driven by Maxwell and Consumo armed with a shotgun immediately get off there from and walked fast going to the bar together with Nueva and therein interrupt the three victims with bullets. After the shooting, the suspects rushed out and boarded with the same vehicle heading toward to Tanza, Cavite.
The victims were brought to the nearest hospital, but Atas and Horfilla were declared dead on arrival and Sierra who was badly injured is now confined at M.V. Santiago Medical Hospital having a critical condition.
-Princess Ruby Bascugin