Woman shot dead while attending wake

A WOMAN was killed while her husband was injured when they were shot while attending a relative’s wake in Purok 1, Barangay Tuburan Sur, Danao City on Saturday night, Sept. 10, 2022.

The victim, identified as 46-yearold Judith Luceñara Almerez, was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

She was shot in the back of the head. Her 48-year-old husband Rene, a construction worker, remains in critical condition. He was shot in the chest and in the knee.

The gunman was identified as Crisanto Roda Casinao, a 38-yearold tricycle driver who happens to be the couple’s neighbor.

Police said personal grudge was the motive for the crime.

The shooting took place at 8:20 p.m. He said Casinao was aiming for the husband, but the latter hit the wife instead.

Casinao pulled the trigger again to shoot the husband, and he hit the latter.

Casinao fled and got rid of the .45 pistol. He parked his tricycle in Barangay Sabang and went to sleep only to wake up when police arrested him around 1 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11.

Casinao told the police that he and Rene had an altercation the other month.

Casinao said the construction worker placed a butt of a cigarette made out of blackberry leaves in his collar, which burned him. This led to an argument, which almost turned into a fistfight, but Casinao told police he walked away because he didn’t want any trouble.

Casinao said the Almerezes also interfered whenever he and his wife had a fight.

The suspect will be facing murder and frustrated murder charges before the prosecutor’s office.