Originally Posted by
filz_33
It was close to midnight when 20-year-old Ruby Jade Ruba was texting on her cellphone as she waited on a near-empty street in barangay Capitol Site, Cebu City.
The nursing student stood outside a friend’s apartment on Governor Roa Street, where she was hoping to borrow the adaptor for a computer laptop. The apartment, like the street, was dark and unlighted as she tried to text her friend. The road is not in the route of police patrols.
She was easy prey.
Two men on a red motorcycle arrived and a classic roadside holdup unfolded.
One man got off the back seat and aimed a gun at her.
She tried to move away. A single shot of a .38 caliber revolver pierced her wrist and chest. Her cellphone was grabbed.
Badly wounded, Ruba was still able to run off a few meters before falling to the ground.
The dreams of a young woman to graduate as a nurse and work abroad ended with the theft of a P5,000 Nokia cellphone.
I don’t know the Ruby Jade Ruba, the Cebu Doctors’ University nursing student, who was robbed and killed last week. But when I heard the news about her brutal killing from the hands of those merciless killers, I got angry. Daw gikumot ang akong kasing-kasing sa kalooy ug sa samang higayon nagpangagot ang akong mga ngipon sa kalagot. That news practically destroyed my day and I asked myself, why should it happen to her? I grieved for her untimely death.
Ruby’s senseless killing has again awakened my nerves and I just hope that the vigilantes would resume their operation so they could go after these criminals who continue to prey on the public.
I've read this article somewhere. Just can't remember where.