MIDSAYAP, Cotabato (PNA) – Police are hot on the trail of two motorcycle-riding gunmen who fatally shot a Maguindanao trader in a busy thoroughfare here at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20.
Lt. Col. Rolly Oranza, Midsayap police chief, said 53-year-old rice dealer Bon Jovi Sindatok Edzla of Datu Piang, Maguindanao was in his Isuzu pickup truck when he was ambushed on Quezon Ave. in Barangay Poblacion here at 4 p.m.
“The victim died (after undergoing treatment) at Amado Diaz Hospital,” Oranza said of Edzala, who ran for councilor in Datu Piang in the last elections.
Scene-of-the-Crime (SOCO) investigators found seven empty shells of a .45 caliber pistol at the scene.
Oranza said they are still reviewing closed circuit television (CCTV) footage of business establishments near the site of the crime scene.