A LONE suspect shot and killed a businessman, who is into buying and selling fruits, in Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, Negros Occidental past 10 a.m. Thursday, December 9, 2021.
Silay City Police Station Chief Lieutenant Colonel Robert Petate said victim Leopoldo Agudon, 52, of Barangay 1 in the city, was about to park his canter truck when the gunman approached and shot him several times.
Petate said the suspect fled on a motorcycle while Agudon succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds on his way to the Teresita L. Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in the city.
Petate added that they have yet to establish the motive behind the crime, adding that they are now coordinating with the victim’s family if he has been receiving death threats before he was shot.
Four fired cartridges of .45 caliber pistol and an empty shell of the same caliber were recovered from the crime scene, police records showed.
Meanwhile, the bodies of two men were found in the towns of Ilog and Calatrava in the province.
On Wednesday, Carl John Navalsca, 25, of Crossing Bag-o in Barangay San Jose Binalbagan, was found with a stab wound on the neck at a canal near a sugarcane plantation at Hacienda San Ramon in Barangay Manalad, town police chief Captain Thurslie Castillo said.
Navlasca was identified by his live-in partner, whose name is being withheld, and who admitted that the victim is involved in illegal drug trade, Castillo said.
He said that based on the tattoos on Navlasca’s body, it is possible that the latter was already imprisoned before.
A bladed weapon believed to have been used in stabbing the victim was recovered from the crime scene while the motive for the killing is still being established as of Thursday.
On Thursday, Captain Jhonny Guilot of Barangay Minapasok in Calatrava town reported to the police that the body of a still-unidentified man was found near a river in the barangay around 6 a.m.
The victim was identified as Nonie Boy Pales, 19, of Sitio Mainit, Barangay San Isidro, Toboso and a swine technician, Staff Sergeant Juanito Lambating, case investigator, said.
Post mortem examination conducted by Dr. Maria Lynn Cahanap showed that the victim sustained gunshot wounds on the neck and forehead.
Lambating said Pales was at the house of their churchmate in Calatrava but went home around 10 p.m. Wednesday.
He said they do not have any witnesses and motive yet behind the killing.
Lambating also said according to nearby residents, they heard two gunshots between 4 to 5 a.m. Thursday before Pales was found.