A Canadian man opened fire in a courtroom in the Philippines today, killing two people and wounding a prosecutor before he was fatally shot by officers, police said.
The man, identified by authorities in Cebu as 63-year-old John Pope, was in court to face illegal possession of firearms and other charges.
Pope was in court in central Cebu city, where he lived, when he pulled out a gun. He then shot a lawyer, Giovanni Achas, and Dr. Reynold Rafols, who had filed a case against him, police said.
Authorities say he later shot and seriously wounded an assistant prosecutor in a courthouse stairway, freelance journalist Simone Orendain reported from the Philippines.
"Pope, who was described as a retired journalist, was facing charges of illegal possession of firearms," Orendain reported for CBC News. "In May 2011 his neighbour, the surgeon Dr. Reynold Rafols, told local media he had filed charges of 'malicious mischief' against Pope."
Gunman reportedly carried 2 firearms
On Tuesday, Pope was carrying two firearms — a .357 revolver that he used to shoot the three, and another .45 pistol that police later seized from his bag, the Philippine Star reported.
A weapon lays at the scene of a fatal shooting at a courthouse in Cebu in the Philippines. (Courtesy Jophet Budlat/SunStar.com.ph) Regional police director Marcelo Garbo said Pope was wounded by responding to police after he ignored orders to surrender and tried to fire at them. He and the prosecutor were taken to a hospital.
Pope had reportedly lived in the Philippines for several years.
Local media mentioned Pope in 2011, when he was held by police on charges of illegal possession of firearms. The same physician who was killed in Tuesday's shooting accused Pope, his neighbour, of brandishing a weapon and threatening him and other residents in their condominium complex.
Pope was arrested and charged after showing up at Rafols's clinic with a handgun.
Pope had been quoted as saying at the time that the pistol he was carrying was for self-defence.
"I wanted to be prepared," Pope said to ABS-CBN News in the Philippines six months ago. "This guy, Rafols, once came to my apartment at 2 o'clock in the morning with two armed police officers and an armed bodyguard with their guns out and swung a baseball bat inches from my face."
The shooting came after several recent killings in the country that prompted calls for a tighter gun control.
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