GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A gubernatorial candidate in Sarangani in next year’s elections was shot and wounded here on Saturday, Nov. 23.
LAWYER-BUSINESSMAN Gladden Lim shows his Certificate of Candidacy in next year's elections. (FB)
Police Col. Nicomedes Olaivar, city police director, identified the victim as lawyer-businessman Gladden Lim, 48.
Olaivar said the victim was shot by a motorcycle-riding gunman as he was coming out of his car at the compound of a church on Dacera Ave., Barangay City Heights at 6 p.m.
The victim sustained two bullet wounds in the stomach from a .45 caliber pistol.
He was taken to a nearby hospital.
Police ruled out politics and are eyeing a land dispute as motive in the incident.