COTABATO CITY (PNA) – A man shot dead his cousin, a newly elected barangay councilor, in Midsayap, North Cotabato on Wednesday morning, November 1, police said.
The victim, Suharto Antilino, was a newly proclaimed kagawad of Barangay Poblacion 3 in Midsayap, Police Lt. Col. John Miridel Calinga, town police chief, said.
“Witnesses said there was an argument between Antilino and his cousin before the shooting,” Calinga said in a radio interview, citing witnesses’ accounts.
According to some witnesses, Antilino, 35, ran but was chased by the gunman who opened fire, hitting the victim in the back of his head.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
Responding police found an empty shell for a caliber .45 pistol at the crime scene.
According to Calinga, the shooting was not election-related but more of a “personal grudge” involving the victim and the assailant.