By Glazyl Masculino BACOLOD CITY – Motorcycle-riding assailants gunned down on Thursday, November 14 two councilmen of Barangay Kalamtukan in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental. Police cordon the area, where two village councilmen were gunned down by two unidentified men on a motorcycle at Brgy. Kalumboyan, Bayawan City, Negros Oriental Thursday. (Photo courtesy of Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office / MANILA BULLETIN) Slain were Felipe Condez Jr., 60, a former barangay captain; and his son, Jonesis Condez, 31. Col. Julian Entoma, Negros Oriental police director, said both victims were riding a motorcycle along Sitio Napac-an, Barangay Kalumboyan when the unidentified gunmen tailed them and shot them. The Condezes were reportedly on their way home. When the wounded councilmen fell from their motorcycle, the gunmen disembarked from their own motorbike and again pumped bullets into their bodies several times, the police director said. “There was really an intent to kill them. Tinapos talaga sila kasi bumaba pa ng motorsiklo (They got off their motorcycles and finished them),” he added. The victims died on the spot. Entoma said more than 10 empty shells from an M16 rifle and .45 caliber pistol were recovered from the crime scene. Entoma dismissed reports that the incident was insurgency-related or was triggered by political rivalry. Instead, authorities are looking at a family dispute as a possible angle in the killing because of a reported misunderstanding between the victims and their relatives. He said they already have persons of interest but refused to disclose their names since the investigation is ongoing.