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LADY COP SHOT DEAD

Just as police forces in Cebu were kept busy with guarding cemeteries crowded with thousands of people paying respects to their dead relatives, a Lapu-Lapu City policewoman who had just gone off duty from her Kalag-kalag task was attacked and killed last night in Barangay Basak, Mandaue City.

PO1 Sassy Mae Sasing was driving her motorcycle along Barangay Basak in Mandaue City when she was repeatedly shot by one of the two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle shortly before 7 p.m.

Sasing, in her late 20s and who was assigned at the Public Safety Company of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LLCPO), was on her way home to Barangay Jugan, Consolacion town in northern Cebu when her attackers fired several shots, hitting her in the head and other parts of the body.

She was rushed to the Chong Hua Hospital in Mandaue City but was already dead when she reached the hospital at 8:30 p.m., according to Mandaue City Vice Mayor Carlo Fortuna.

Fortuna said he was told by Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) investigators that Sasing sustained multiple gunshot wounds on her body. A fatal shot was also aimed at her head.

“Me and Mayor Luigi Quisumbing were monitoring activities in the city. We got information from the City Command Center tonight on the shooting alarm,” Fortuna said in a phone interview.

Fortuna said he was told by police investigators handling the case that Sasing came from work at the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LLCPO).

She was assigned as part of the city’s Kalag-kalag security team tasked to secure the city’s cemeteries during the All Souls’ Day and All Saints’ Day celebrations.

Sasing, he said, was at the vicinity of Consuelo Village in Barangay Basak, Mandaue City, or around 15 kilometers away from the LLCPO, when attacked by gunmen believed to have been tailing her since she left the LLCPO headquarters.

Emergency rescuers from the Philippine Red Cross Regional Operations Center and Warehouse, which is located in Barangay Jagobiao, Mandaue City, or around a kilometer away from the crime site, were the ones who brought the policewoman to the Chong Hua Hospital located at the North Reclamation Area in Mandaue City.

“Gi-try siya og revive pero wala na (They tried to revive her but she was no longer responsive),” Fortuna said.