Driver shot by parking area guard in Mandaluyong

A DRIVER working for a state-run corporation was shot and wounded by a security guard after an altercation over parking space in a Mandaluyong City building Wednesday night.

The police said Miguel Villamor, 46, a driver working for Pag-Ibig Fund, was shot by Jimmy Opong, 43, a security guard assigned to the building by Achievers Security Agency Philippines.

The incident happened around 8 p.m. on the fourth floor parking area of Jelp Building, where Pag-Ibig Fund has an office, on Shaw Boulevard, Barangay Addition Hills. SPO2 Emmanuel Ermino, the case investigator from the Mandaluyong police, said the two men had an argument when Opong asked Villamor to park his vehicle somewhere else.

Villamor did leave to look for another slot but Opong, who was armed with a 9-mm pistol, followed and shot him several times, hitting the victim in the body and the right leg. Opong, a resident of Culiat, Quezon City, was arrested by two fellow security guards and remained in detention at the Mandaluyong police station as of Thursday.

Ermino said he would be charged with frustrated murder. Villamor, who hails from Bacoor City, Cavite, remained under observation at Lourdes Hospital in Sta. Ana, Manila. Jodee A. Agoncillo