Boy Sta. Romana

Movie tough guy "Boy" Sta. Romana, 25, was killed and a Quezon City policeman and a wealthy textile industrialist's son were wounded in a gunfight at the LVN Pictures compound on Central Boulevard, Quezon City, 9.20 last night July 21 1961 The wounded were Patrolman Victor Buenaventura and Edgardo Pascual, 27, of the wealthy Pascual family in Quezon City. Both were taken to the Quirino Labor Hospital in serious condition, They sustained one wound each in the abdomen. Sta. Romana, whose first name off screen was Primitivo, sustained three wounds in different parts of the body. He died on the wet pavement in front of the LVN studio where the shooting occurred under a heavy drizzle. Ruben, 29, employee of the Pascual textile firm who resides at the Shellborne Hotel, told investigators that he, Pascuel and Buenaventura were driving near the LVN compound when two young girls excitedly told them that a man was threatening people in the compound with a gun. Buenaventura, being a policeman but was in plain clothes as he was off-duty, reportedly drove towards the gate of the studio grounds. There he asked to be let in by two guards so that he could go and disarm the troublemaker, who happened to be Sta. Romana. The guards let Buenaventura and his companions in after ascertaining that Buenaventura was a policeman. When they were in the compound, Buenaventura reportedly identified himself to Sta. Romana and asked the latter to surrender his gun, Sta. Romana did not give up his gun and the shooting started.