CAMP Gen. Florendo, La Union -- A seaman was locked up for allegedly shooting in the forehead a 27-year-old man who urinated inside the compound of the suspect in Bgy. Coliling, San Carlos City.

In a report to Chief Supt. Franklin Bucayu, Police Regional Office 1 director, Senior Supt. Rosueto Ricaforte, Pangasinan police director, said the suspect, Albert Gabatin, got mad when he saw Isidro Caita urinating inside the fence of their compound at 9 p.m.

The suspect accosted the victim, triggering a heated argument between them. Moments later, the suspect drew a .45 pistol and shot the victim in the forehead.

Supt. Gerry Roxas, PNP spokesman, said that as of his writing, the victim was still fighting for his life at the Blessed Family Doctors General Hospital.

The suspect, who is now living in the house of his live-in partner in San Carlos, was immediately locked up after the police filed frustrated murder charges against him.

Police seized the .45 pistol with six rounds of live bullets from the seaman.