DCARMEN.-Police investigators are looking into the possibility that two victims of New Year violence in Carmen town were attributed to the same suspects. This surfaced yesterday as investigators zeroed in on four suspects who were seen by eyewitnesses fleeing the crime scene after they shot to death a certain Romeo Alcocer, age unknown, and a resident of sitio Upper Cabus , barangay Bicao, this town. He was gunned down with a 357 hand gun. An hour later and about 600 meters from where Alcocer was killed, a certain Salvador Ramirez, age unknown, also of the same barangay, was slain by unknown gun men. He was killed on the spot. According to the Carmen police blotter, Alcocer was with three other companions having a drinking spree in one of the residences of the barangay. His companions were identified as Rolando Ramirez, Basilio Oyangoren and a certain Inting Lage. A barangay kagawad identified as Efren Ramirez of barangay Bicao narrated that he went to the house of his uncle Rolando to join in the New Year drinking revelry. Then, all of a sudden, the barangay official said, he heard a loud gun burst.

At first, the kagawad thought that he was the target of the shooting only to learn later that Alcocer who was beside him was the one hit by the bullet fired from the hand gun. The victim was rushed immediately to the Simeon Toribio Memorial Hospital in Carmen but died minutes later. Seeing the fleeing suspects, Ramirez sought police assistance to pursue the assailants. The other shooting incident involving Ramirez took place in a house about 600 meters from the residence where the first shooting happened. The victim was attending a prayer of a dead neighbor when the shooting took place. In the subsequent pursuit operations, the Carmen police bagged one of the suspected assailants identified as Jesus Reboyon, Jr. In an interview in his cell yesterday, Reboyon denied any knowledge of the twin shooting.

The suspect said he was willing to submit to any paraffin examination to prove if he did fire a gun on new year's day. While under investigation, he told Carmen policemen what befell him the past days. While he was suspected as part of the gang that killed two persons on new year's day, he said what happened to him was that his house was razed to the ground last week leaving the family's personal belongings going up in smoke. He said he even sought the assistance of Carmen Kagawad Dindo Palgan for any financial help in order to tide him over as a result of the fire that burned his house. He also sought help from V-Mayor Ramoncito Torrefranca who lost no time also in extending relief assistance to him, his wife and two-year old child. In fact, he was arrested by police while asking help in the residence of V-Mayor Torrefranca. Meanwhile, three of the other suspects in the New Year Shooting were already identified.