A 15-year-old boy was shot dead reportedly by another teenager with an alleged improvised firearm, locally known as "sumpak", while he and his friends were walking along Malaspina-Lopez Jaena streets, in Bacolod City at about 2 p.m. yesterday.

Jess dela Pena Magno, of Crotons-A, Brgy. Old Sagay, Sagay City in Negros Occidental was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, but died later, Senior Insp. Ulysses Ortiz, Precinct 4 commander told the DAILY STAR.

Magno succumbed to a gunshot wound in his head allegedly inflicted by Chucky Dave Magbanua Joaquin, 18, of Malaspina-Lopez Jaena streets in Bacolod City who voluntarily surrendered to Police Precinct 4, four hours after the shooting, Ortiz said. Police initial investigation said Magno was walking with his friends Florencio Santillan, 18, Joser Cullamar Batayen, 17, both of Brgy. Old Sagay, Sagay City and Gil Amar Canete, 16, of Purok Ipil-Ipil Drive, Brgy. Handumanan in Bacolod City, when Joaquin and Robert John Mijares, 18 chased them, Ortiz added.

He said Magno and his friends ran away but were chased by Joaquin Mijares. Magno was allegedly hit with a bullet of a firearm allegedly fired by Joaquin.

Joaquin and Mijares are detained in the lock-up cell of Police Precinct 4 while murder charges are being readied against them, he said.

Ortiz said they are still investigating the motive for the shooting.

In a hot-pursuit operation, meanwhile, Ortiz and his men arrested three 14-year-old boys caught in the act of sniffing "rugby" in an abandoned building a few meters away from the crime scene.

The boys, whose names are being withheld by the DAILY STAR, were detained in the lock-up cell of Police Precinct 4 for violations of Presidential Decree 1619 or sniffing volatile substance, or rugby.

Meanwhile, another 15-year-old boy was wounded allegedly by an unidentified person who flagged down his trisikad in front of Mt. Carmel Subdivision, Brgy. Alijis, Bacolod at about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday, police reports said.

Francis Lobaton Narida, an "inasal" vendor, of Abuanan, Brgy. Sum-ag was also rushed to the CLMMRH with a gunshot wound in his left leg, police reports said.

Initial reports said the suspect wanted to hold Narida up, however he tried to flee, and this led to the shooting.

Narida is still confined at the CLMMRH while his assailant is still at-large, police reports said.*DMG

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