Ex-guard takes mall workers hostage after shooting fellow guard in Greenhills
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:06:22 +0000
By JHON CASINAS
POLICE are deployed in front of the V-Mall in Greenhills, San Juan City, as a former security guard takes some mall workers hostage after shooting a fellow guard. (Mark Balmores)
A disgruntled former security guard disarmed and shot another guard before he held hostage about 30 workers at V-Mall in Greenhills, San Juan City Monday noon.
A police source present at the scene identified the hostage taker as a former mall security guard who went absent without leave (AWOL).
Initial investigation showed that the incident began around 12 noon Monday at V-Mall within the Greenhills shopping center.
The police source told reporters that the suspect disarmed another security guard and shot him.
Then, he held hostage 27 mall employees, four of them women, inside the mall’s admin office located on the second floor, the source said.
He also allegedly took the handheld radio of one of the security personnel which he used to talk with the authorities.
According to the police source, a spent shell from .45-caliber pistol was found along a hallway.