"JESUS saved me!" declared Bro. Jerry Murillo, 28 years old, in an interview as he showed the news reporter the scar etched on his left chest caused by a holdupper's (armed robber) bullet.
Image 1: Bro. Hermie Limpin (in dark glasses) pointing to the bullet hole in Bro. Jerry's shirt. Image 2: Bro. Jerry Murillo's bullet-grazed skin. |
Bro. Jerry was on his way home a little past midnight on April 29, 1990, and at the entrance of Horacio dela Costa Subdivision, Lagro, Novaliches, Quezon City, he was held up by a man with a .38 caliber pistol.
As Bro. Jerry pleaded to the robber not to harm him, another holdupper darted out from the dark holding a home-made shotgun, "sumpak." They held him and struggled to take his belongings.
He prayed to GOD for help and shouted, "HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD!"
Surprised, the holduppers suddenly took their hands off him. Then out of the dark there appeared a white car approaching where they stood which somehow distracted the men's attention. But one of the men nervously warned Bro. Jerry not to run or else they will shoot him.
After the car passed them by, a mysterious force from behind pushed Bro. Jerry forward so that he could not help but run away from the holduppers, but after just two steps away, one of the men shouted "Stop!"
Bro. Jerry stopped and instantly turned around to face them, and from just a meter away, the man with the .38 pistol fired his gun towards him.
News article of Bro. Jerry's experience. |
And when he examined his chest, his t-shirt had no blood, only a tiny hole -- the entry point of the bullet -- and on his body was a slight gunshot wound from which the bullet merely bounced off his chest.
The medico legal certificate issued to him on May 3, 1990 by Dr. Honorata C. Gonzales, Chief, Medical Records Division, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, goes: a grazing 20 gunshot wound, (1) lower anterior chest. He was attended to by Dr. Luis Panuncialman.
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