Police eye personal conflict as motive in Talisay councilman slay

Cebu Provincial Police Office (SunStar file photo)
Cebu Provincial Police Office (SunStar file photo)

THE police have obtained a lead on the murder of re-elected Barangay Bulacao, Talisay City councilman Dennis Ponce Ramos.

Cebu Provincial Police Office Director Manuel Javier Abrugena said on Friday morning, May 18, that his investigators are looking into Ramos's personal conflicts as one of the possible motives behind the attack.

Other factors are also being looked into by the police.

Ramos was about to open the door of his vehicle parked outside his hardware store in Barangay Pitalo, San Fernando, Cebu, when the riding-in-tandem assailants shot him multiple times at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 17.

The incident happened three days after the victim was re-elected as councilman of Barangay Bulacao, Talisay City.

The 43-year-old businessman succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds.

Ramos's relatives rushed him to a private hospital in Naga City, but the attending doctor declared him dead on arrival.

Crime Scene Investigation personnel recovered seven empty shells of .45 pistol.

The culprits, who wore helmets and black shirts, fled north of San Fernando on board their motorcycle.

Meanwhile, a poll official said that Ramos can only be replaced through a recommendation from the newly elected village council.

Lawyer Marchel Sarno, Talisay City Election officer, told Sunstar Cebu that the newly-elected barangay council of Bulacao will be given the chance to choose who will replace the late councilor-elect once they assume office.

Sarno said that based on the Local Government Code of 1991, only the newly-elected barangay council can choose who can replace Ramos.

But Sarno said that once the barangay council has recommended who will replace Ramos, they need the concurrence of Talisay City Mayor Eduardo Gullas before the replacement can assume office.

“They have the option of choosing the eighth-placed councilor or anyone who is a registered voter as long as he or she is recommended by the barangay council and is approved by the mayor,” Sarno added. (KAL/JKV)

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