A father and son shot dead in Tabango

By RPCRD, Police Regional Office 8
May 31, 2011

CAMP RUPERTO K KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte  –  PCSupt Arnold Rayala Revilla directed the Tabango Police to probe the criminal side of the incident regarding on the recent shooting incident at about 7:00 PM of May 27, 2011, at Brgy Tugas, Tabango Leyte.

"We will look into the details to determine precisely why it happened – if the gunman was under the influence of drugs or if he was psychologically imbalanced," he said.

Pedro Parcon, 58 yrs old, married, carpenter and Charlito Parcon, 27 yrs old, single, habal-habal driver/barangay tanod and certain Jose Saric Vellorijo of legal age, married, jobless and a resident of said place were hit by a gunshot by one Rodrigo Damayo Sr alias Rudy with the use of cal .45 pistol bearing Serial Nr 744853 with FA’s License Nr 1034201/1915779 valid until 11 March 2012.

Initial investigation disclosed that the aforesaid place of incident was celebrating vesper night and Socio-cultural Entertainment wherein the said suspect who is a Chief Tanod together with his five barangay tanod members were detailed by their barangay chairman to maintain peace and order for the duration of said event.

While in the height of the celebration, a commotion transpired involving Mr Pedro Parcon and his son Charlito Parcon both believed to be under the influence of liquor and armed with a long bolo and a squid hook who with no apparent reason went wild and threatened the crowd causing panic/alarm and scandal at the scene and subsequently attacked the duty barangay tanods which prompted Chief Tanod Damayo to fire a warning shot twice to pacify the duo.

At that instance, Mr Charlito Parcon attacked barangay chief tanod Damayo using a squid hook hitting the left back portion of his body prompting the latter to shoot hitting the chest of Charlito. When Mr Parcon learned that his son was shot, the latter immediately attacked Damayo, however, the latter luckily evaded and managed to shoot Pedro Parcon hitting his left thigh while bystander Jose Saric Vellorijo was hit at his left leg by a stray bullet.