Cebu Metropolis, Philippines —A 20-year-old e-bike driver was wounded after masked gunmen stormed his residence and shot him inside his bed room in Sitio Lawis, Barangay Pasil, Cebu Metropolis, round 4:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 25, 2026.
Police recognized the sufferer by his alias, “Chanoy,” a resident of the world who lives together with his live-in accomplice and their two-year-old youngster.
Masked males robbed Pasil boarding home
In response to preliminary police investigations and witness accounts, no less than six suspects clad in black clothes and face coverings entered the three-story construction.
The intruders first went to the third ground, the place they robbed a boarder of a cell phone. Then they entered an adjoining room demanding cash and telephones, however left after the occupants said they’d nothing to present.
A witness recognized as “Inday,” the sufferer’s sister-in-law, recalled that Chanoy heard aggressive knocking at his door.
“Nag-una na sila sa third ground. Nya gikuha ang cellphone sa usa sa mga boarder namo,” she stated. (They already went forward to the third ground. Then they took the cellphone of certainly one of our boarders.)
“Human sa taas, gituktuk pud mi. Nya pag-abli namo, gipangayuan mi sa amung mga cellphone ug kwarta, pero gitubag man siya sa akong mama nga maoy kuyog nako sa kwarto nga ‘wala mi ikahatag, wala man mi labot ana,’ mao nang gawas dayun sila,” she added.
(After going upstairs, they knocked on our door too. Then after we opened it, they requested us for our cellphones and cash, however my mom, who was with me within the room, answered them, ‘We don’t have something to present, we now have nothing to do with you,’ in order that they instantly left.)
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Escape
Sensing hazard, Chanoy instructed his accomplice to not open it and tried to flee by leaping by means of a glass window onto a neighbor’s roof.
Nevertheless, the suspects managed to breach the door and opened hearth, hitting Chanoy within the thigh.
5 gunshots had been heard in the course of the ordeal, which occurred whereas the sufferer’s accomplice and toddler had been contained in the room.
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Sufferer had felony historical past
Barangay Captain Francisco De Gracia Jr. disclosed that Chanoy had a historical past of native disturbances and held a previous barangay blotter document for main troubled youth teams locally.
“Kana siya, daan na jud na siya badlungon ug bugoy-bugoy. Siya ang chief sa mga kabatan-unan diri,” he stated. “That particular person has lengthy been identified to be unruly and a troublemaker. He’s the chief of the youth round right here.”
De Gracia added that the sufferer had been beforehand incarcerated a number of instances for drug-related offenses:
“Napriso naman na siya, ug sa akong nahibaw-an, murag di ra kaisa.” (He has already been jailed earlier than, and so far as I do know, it wasn’t simply as soon as.)
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Police authorities in Pasil confirmed that the sufferer was arrested in 2024 and once more in March 2026, and investigators at the moment level to unlawful medicine as the first motive behind the bed room assault.
The sufferer stays hospitalized and is scheduled to endure surgical procedure for his gunshot accidents. In the meantime, regulation enforcement officers are reviewing native CCTV footage to establish and observe down the perpetrators.
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