2 dead in Cagayan, Isabela gun attacks; cop, kid ambushed

By Raymund Catindig

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Two persons were killed and two others were wounded in separate gun attacks in Isabela and Cagayan last week.

Sheryl Gammad, 25, manager of Lexicon Trading Store in Barangay Bugallon in Ramon, Isabela, was attending to customers when an unidentified man shot her at close range Tuesday.

In Claveria, Cagayan, construction worker Richard Pascua, 35, had just left a bar with his friends in Barangay Centro when he was gunned down.

Police said the victims were not on the drug watchlist.

Meanwhile, Senior Police Officer 3 Jose Medina, 53, of the Ilocos regional security group and his daughter Gelian were in a car on their way to Aringay, La Union when motorcycle-riding men fired at them in Barangay Dili in  Bauang town at around 6:30 p.m.

They were taken to the Ilocos Training and Regional Medical Center in San Fernando City for treatment.