Thursday, July 26, 2007 Ex-gov't employee faces raps for shooting of TV exec
The PNP Task Force Usig is set to file frustrated murder charges against a Land Transportation Office (LTO) agent for the shooting of a television station manager in Negros Occidental on Wednesday morning.
Ferdinand "Bambi" Yngson, 46, station manager of GMA Network's radio station in Bacolod City, was shot and wounded by Romeo Corgo at the Sagay City Public Market.
Corgo, reportedly a deputized enforcer of the Land Transportation Office (LTO), was arrested by police and is undergoing investigation at the Sagay City Police Station.
He will be charged with frustrated murder and illegal possession of firearms, according to Director Geary Barias, chief of the task force, which is tasked to investigate the rash of extrajudicial killings in the country.
PNP Chief Oscar Calderon and his staff were in Iloilo City when reports of the incident reached them.
Calderon immediately instructed Barias, who is also the PNP director for investigation for detective management, to proceed to nearby Negros Occidental to personally assess and supervise the investigation.
Barias said suspect Corgo used a "sumpak" or improvised shotgun in shooting Yngson.
Barias did not discount the possibility of a personal grudge as the motive behind the shooting but assured that all angles will be looked into including reports that the victim had been critical of alleged anomalies involving the suspect at the local LTO branch in Bacolod City prior to the shooting. (VR/Sunnex)
