No leads yet on killers of 17-year-old boy
Police investigators have yet to get a lead that could point to the killers of a 17-year-old boy from Molo, Iloilo City on Thursday. Police Lieutenant Marlon Perez, Molo deputy police chief, said they don’t have persons of interest that could be linked to the murder of John Paolo Yson

By Jennifer P. Rendon
By Jennifer P. Rendon
Police investigators have yet to get a lead that could point to the killers of a 17-year-old boy from Molo, Iloilo City on Thursday.
Police Lieutenant Marlon Perez, Molo deputy police chief, said they don’t have persons of interest that could be linked to the murder of John Paolo Yson of Barangay Salvacion Habog-Habog.
Perez said they are still checking CCTV cameras in the area to get a clue on the identity of the riding-in-tandem gunmen.
Yson, a Grade 11 student, was playing inside their neighborhood computer shop when a gunman shot him around 3:23 pm of Aug 20, 2020
Based on CCTV footages in the barangay, the two suspects arrived on board a motorcycle a few steps from the shop’s entrance.
The back rider got off the motorcycle and went inside the shop and immediately shot the victim.
The victim succumbed to three gunshot injuries.
There were six other customers inside the computer rental shop but none of them identified the gunman, who was wearing a mask and crash helmet.
The six customers and the shop’s owner scampered to different directions.
Thirty seconds later, the gunman was seen boarding the motorcycle and then sped off.
Perez said that the motorcycle had no plate number.
Investigation also showed that the victim had no bad record in the village.
“He’s not also on the drugs watchlist nor involved in any misdemeanor,” Perez said.
Yson’s father said the victim also had no known enemy.
“Mabait sya na bata. Wala naman daw kaaway,” Perez said.
It was gathered that Yson was the eldest of the four children. His parents have been separated for several years already.
Days before the incident, Yson intimated to his mother that he wanted to temporarily stay with her in Antique province.
With no apparent motive, Perez said they’re entertaining every angle, including the possibility that it was a case of mistaken identity.
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