Hostage taker Nove Kris Salon holds a girl inside a 7-Eleven convenience store in Kauswagan, this city, on Saturday night in this screengrab from a video posted on social media.
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By NITZ ARANCON and JOEY NACALABAN, Correspondents .

THE 28-year old man from Camiguin who held hostage a girl inside a 7-Eleven convenience store in Kauswagan on Saturday night asked the police for some ice cream because the establishment where he was in, to his disappointment, had none.

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City police spokesman Supt. Mardy Hortillosa revealed this even as the Carmen police pressed four charges against Nove Kris Salon of Litican, Mahinog in Camiguin, yesterday afternoon.

Hostage taker Nove Kris Salon holds a girl inside a 7-Eleven convenience store in Kauswagan, this city, on Saturday night in this screengrab from a video posted on social media.

SPO3 Zona Fabria of the Carmen police’s women and children’s protection desk said Salon was slapped with complaints for kidnapping and serious illegal detention, malicious mischief, alarm and scandal, and illegal gun possession in connection with Saturday’s two-hour hostage crisis before the City Prosecutor’s Office.

“Bahala na ang fiscal (prosecutor) kon unsa nga kaso ilang i-file sa korte batok sa maong suspect,” Fabria said.

Before his girlfriend Geraldine Jablan succeeded in convincing him to surrender, Salon asked authorities to bring him some ice cream, a request or demand the police did not act on.

At that time, the convenience store on RN Pelaez Street in Kauswagan ran out of ice cream but the police’s failure to bring him some did not affect negotiations for him to give up.

According to Hortillosa, Salon entered the store at around 9 pm, and tried to restrain the cashier who fought back. Unable to take any adult hostage, Salon settled for the 10-year-old girl.

City police director Senior Supt. Nelson Aganon said the girl was brought to the store by her guardian Virnalette Rodriguez who was supposed to buy something.

Aganon said Salon entered the establishment, broke a bottle, took a fire extinguisher and wrapped its hose around the girl’s neck. Inside the store’s stockroom, he took a caliber .38 revolver from 26-year-old guard Rhico Velez.

Aganon said Salon fired the revolver at least once in the middle of the negotiations.

And then out of the blue, while everyone was tense, Salon asked for ice cream, according to Hortillosa.

Police said that aside from ice cream, Salon also demanded to see his girlfriend and talk to his sister. Both subsequently came.

It was Jablan, the girlfriend from Macabalan, who convinced the suspect free the girl, and hand himself over to the authorities.

At the Carmen police station where he was detained, Salon said he was “problematic,” “depressed,” and he could not explain why he held a girl hostage that night. His girlfriend said she had a spat with Salon and they had not spoken to each other for two days until Saturday night.

 

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