Cops searching for 'third party' in mall shooting in Pampanga

The police are looking for "third party" in the supposed relationship between two male teenagers who were killed in a shopping mall shooting in Pampanga. In a radio dzBB report on Thursday, Superintendent Wilson Santos, chief of the Mexico municipal police office, said the third party could help solve the mystery surrounding the shooting incident inside a shopping mall in Mexico, Pampanga. The investigators are also conducting "back-tracking" procedures to piece together the information they have gathered so far. The police are also going to review footage from the shopping mall's closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera. The police are still determining where the 13-year-old obtained his gun but the boy's father said their family does not own any firearm. Authorities suspected the incident to have been a "crime of passion" based on the 13-year-old boy's suicide note where he reportedly expressed his willingness to die with his lover. The police suspect the 13-year-old boy, in a jealous rage, shot the older teen who was said to be involved with another person. GMA News Online is withholding the identities of the two victims, both minors. The younger boy, who shot himself in the head after shooting the other boy, died at around 2:50 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. The older boy, on the other hand, passed away at around 11:30 p.m. also on Wednesday. Gun too small to detect According to the police, the boy used a caliber-22 gun to shoot himself and his alleged lover at an SM shopping mall in Pampanga. In a statement read on GMA News TV Live on Tuesday, vice president for marketing of the SM Supermalls Millie Dizon said the mall's security had failed to detect the firearm from the shooter because it was too small. The gun was "smaller than the size of a palm" and could not be detected by their metal detectors, she said. Organs no longer to be donated The parents of the 13-year-old boy earlier consented to make their son an organ donor. The boy, however, died after undergoing surgery to remove his kidney and cornea. One of his doctors said over radio dzBB on Thursday that the organ donation did not push through because the recipient was not medically prepared to receive the kidney. He added that the boy's relatives had already specified the supposed recipient and did not give permission to have the kidney donated to anyone else. - RJMD/VVP, GMA News