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Saturday, November 01, 2003
Motorcycle riding assassins killed 3rd trader
By Rex C. Otero
DAVAO -- A lodging house owner was shot dead midnight Thursday, the third businessman in Buhangin to be killed by motorcycle-riding assassins since June.
Police still have no lead on the killing of all three, which occurred three months since the first assassination.
Olivio Omang, 62, owner of the Family Lodge at Km. 7 in San Isidro, Buhangin, and a resident of San Isidro, was inside the lodge when two unidentified men pretending to be customers entered Thursday midnight, PO3 Joseph Limbaco of the Buhangin Police said.
One of the two men pulled out a .45 caliber pistol and shot the victim on the chest and head although the police only recovered one empty shell at the crime scene.
The suspects then traipsed through the makeshift footpath set up in the neighborhood following a recent demolition of illegal structures and boarded a motorcycle that was waiting for them by the road.
The victim was rushed to the Davao Medical Center but was declared dead on arrival. One of the victim's children said his father was a good man and was never involved with illegal drugs, as a number of victims gunned down by motorcycle-riding men were alleged to be.
Reports from a radio broadcast revealed that a land dispute was among the motives for the killing. Limbaco said they are still conducting further investigations.
Omang is the third businessman in Buhangin district shot by motorcycle-riding men since June.
A 56-year-old trader, Arturo Kwok, of San Nicolas, Buhangin was shot around 5:30 a.m. last July 29. The victim owned a hardware store along Guerrero St., Davao City.
The victim was driving his owner-type jeep on his way to Victoria Plaza to jog when a gunman aboard a motorcycle shot him dead.
Bernardo Kwok, the victim's son, said his father was not involved with illegal drugs and revealed that a business dispute was the motive for the killing.
Since the death of his father, Bernardo took over the reins of the business. Just last September 27, around 5:30 p.m., Bernardo was also shot dead while driving his car by motorcycle-riding men waiting for him near his residence in Vincent Heights, Buhangin.
(November 1, 2003 issue)
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