A VILLAGE chief was gunned down by unidentified motorcycle-riding men in San Jose, Batangas Monday, May 21, Police Regional Office 4 (Calabarzon) director Chief Superintendent Guillermo Eleazar said.

Eleazar said Barangay Buso-buso chairman Demetrio Mendoza Deomampo was shot dead while alighting from his vehicle around 8:25 a.m. in Barangay Pinagtung-ulan in the said town.

He said the assailants were on board a black motorcycle. A caliber .45 pistol was used against the victim. The assailants fled towards Lipa City.

Eleazar said the police have yet to find out the motive of the killing. (Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo/SunStar Philippines)