You never think it will happen to you

Tuesday was an uneventful day, just relaxed, saw another condo and stayed at home in the evening.

Wednesday was very different.............................

As I didn't go to bed until 4am I didn't get up til after 10 am, done all the usual things, showering etc, had some lunch and decided to walk downtown at 12.45pm. I walked down Makati Avenue as usual thinking to myself how cool it was and the walk was nice. I got to the main intersection and crossed half way waiting for the traffic to stop so that I could cross the 2nd half. Just at that point I heard a loud bang near me, I thought is that a firework or a gun, 2 more loud bangs and I realised that it was gunshots especially as people around me were screaming and running for cover, the guy next to me dived to the floor, I decided I'd better do something so I kneeled down. In that split second I tried to take stock of what was happening, I looked across to my left about 20 yards away, there was a small pickup vehicle with flashes coming through it, he was driving slowly towards going across my path but then veered to his left as he reached me, he then picked up speed and was heading away from me towards the direction that I was walking.

He drove towards the building that was ahead of me, at the same time more bullets were hitting his back window, I could clearly see the holes appear from the shots, he then drove into the concrete of the building and came to a stop, I looked back to where the shots were coming from but only saw cars starting to drive away fast, it could have been the gunmen or ordinary drivers just getting out of the way. After about 10 seconds or so people began to stand up to see what was happening and so did I, what do you do in that scenario, I certainly didn't know what to do but I was heading south so thought it best just to continue on my journey which took me up to the vehicle, I wasn't being morbid but I was first to reach the vehicle and saw a huge hole in the drivers window, the driver was leaning against his door with blood coming from his head obviously dead.

There was 10 or 12 shots fired but I think most, if not all hit the driver or his vehicle. Normally there are lots of police around these main junctions but I didn't see any at that point, either they kept their distance until it was over or possibly it was them doing the shooting as the police here have been known to take justice into their own hands.

The Mayor of Daveo admits that he has a police group that kills criminals undercover but he says that he does warn them to give up crime before he decides that they should die !!!! Nice eh !

Strange day...... strange world............. sometimes you can be in the wrong place at the wrong time....... 1 stray bullet and I might not be writing this !!!!!

I willl let you know the reason for the killing if it is in tomorrows paper.

UPDATE 12 midnight
It turns out that there were 2 men shot dead. They and 2 others had just picked up 6 million pesos (60,000 pounds) from the bank, 6 robbers demanded the money, they refused so the robbers shot them. The money was returned to the owner that the guards worked for. He got his money but 2 of them lost their lives............. ??