Reveler shot by man with short temper

A 50-YEAR-OLD reveler in the annual celebration of the feast day of St. John the Baptist in San Juan City on Sunday ended up in the hospital after a man whom he had drenched with a bucketful of water got irked and shot him. Delfin Salvo, a steward supervisor of Manila Pavillon Hotel and a resident of the city’s Barangay Ermitanio, was hit in the shoulder and rushed to San Juan Medical Center. “It was supposed to be for everyone’s merriment. But there were people who are not used to the tradition,” case investigator PO3 Gener Antaso said. He identified the shooter as Mariano San Andres, a seaman who was visiting some relatives in the city. The shooting occurred at the corner of N. Domingo and F. Santos Streets after San Andres asked Salvo and the other residents to avoid dousing him and his wife with water, a tradition observed during the feast day. “He even warned them that he had a gun which he would use if one of them dared to do so,” Antaso said. The residents stayed away from San Andres but when Salvo saw him again, the latter asked him if it was okay to douse him with water before doing so. The seaman lost his temper, went to his gray Toyota Fortuner with plate number TQK 970 and drove up to the group of residents. He alighted from his car and waved his pistol at the residents while saying, “Here’s my gun.” He then punched Salvo before boarding his car again. When an angry group of bystanders ran after him, San Andres stopped his vehicle, stepped out and started firing his gun, hitting Salvo. He then escaped as the victim was rushed to the hospital.