Police have custody of ‘brother-killer’

Four hours after shooting his brother dead, businessman Roy Vincent Gopuco, 44, surrendered to authorities accompanied by his lawyer.

Insp. Lilibeth Arche, chief of the Homicide Section of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), said the case is now closed.

“They had a falling-out because the suspect had embezzled money from their business,” Arche said in Cebuano.

Cris, 40, succumbed to three gunshot wounds--two in the back and one in the head--around 3 p.m. last Thursday.

Roy fled after the incident. But later that night, Roy turned up at the police station around 7:30 p.m. with his legal counsel, Atty. Joan Largo.

The homicide chief said that they have to recover the 9mm used in the shooting.

Fatal shooting in Lapu-Lapu

“We already subjected him to a paraffin test,” she said.

CCPO Director Joel Doria said that Roy reportedly went “blank” in the middle of the fight with his brother.

A murder charge will be filed against Roy on Monday.

“He can’t run away from the crime he committed so he has to take responsibility for it,” Doria said in Tagalog. Also last Thursday, Maodin Manali Lucman, the 45-year-old president of the Lapu-Lapu City Muslim Ambulant Vendors’ Assocation, was shot dead by riding-in-tandem assailants in G.Y. Dela Cerna St. in Barangay Poblacion.

The incident happened outside a store at 2:10 p.m.

Lucman was brought to the city hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.

PO3 Marvin Saraum, one of the investigators, said they have invited vendors who know Lucman to determine the motive behind the attack.