PNP News Releases 2005

P N P News Release No. 04-0603
Authority : P/ CHIEF SUPT JOEL R GOLTIAO PNP
Public Information Office, Camp Crame , Quezon City
Telefax: (632) 7255115 Email: information@pnp.gov.ph
Date : Tuesday, 08 June 2004

MANHUNT ON FOR GUNMEN IN CEBU SHOOTING

PNP Chief, Director General Hermogenes E Ebdane Jr. today ordered a regionwide manhunt operation for suspects in the shooting of Cebu radio commentator Cirse Torralba.

Sketchy reports reaching Camp Crame disclosed that Torralba was shot by a lone gunman at 2:45 PM today along Don Avila St. near the Sacred Heart School for Girls in Cebu City .

According to Superintendent Melvin Gayotin, Officer-in-Charge of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), Torralba had just left the Angel Radio DYAR station in Juana Osmeña St. , when the gunman stood infront of his car and opened fire with a cal.45 pistol.

The victim was taken to the Cebu Doctors Hospital for treatment of three gunshot wounds in the right hand and shoulder.

Operatives of the CCPO have fanned out to various places in Cebu in search of a white Nissan car with license plate number UUJ-988 which was seen by witnesses as the car used by the gunmen.

The PNP Chief, also instructed Police Director Rolando Garcia, PNP Regional Office-7 Director for Central Visayas to field tracker teams from other units to join the manhunt.