By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga

A man was wounded after he allegedly tried to shoot a responding operative from the 65th Philippine National Police-Special Action Force during a scuffle at Poblacion 2 in Negros Occidental’s Sagay City.

Police identified the suspect as Delmar Amparo, 18 years old, a resident of the village’s Purok Coscouela.

Police Captain Judesses Catalogo, Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office spokesperson, said Police Staff Sergeant Melvin Latoza immediately responded to a brawl in the said village which was celebrating a fiesta.

Amparo allegedly went home to get a firearm and shot Latoza.

He managed to dodge the gunshots and in return he shot Amparo in the torso.

Amparo was immediately rushed to the hospital for treatment and is in stable condition.

Meanwhile, Latoza was placed under investigation as a standard operating procedure to determine if the action he took was appropriate./DGB, WDJ