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Facts: In a busy city market at dusk, the offender, masked and armed, forcibly obtains cash from a vendor’s till and, in the same act and single criminal impulse, fatally shoots a bystander who tries to intervene, then escapes with the cash. (a) Does the offender's conduct constitute a complex crime proper under Article 48 of the Revised Penal Code? (b) What penalty should be imposed on the offender? (c) Are the robbery elements punishable separately or absorbed into the murder penalty? Explain.