A Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Region 12 job-order employee was gunned down before dawn on Saturday, May 11, in Tulunan, Cotabato.
MAP of Cotabato with the town of Tulunan highlighted.
Police Capt. April Rose Soria, Tulunan municipal police station chief, identified the victim as Peter Estelloso, 39.
Investigation said that two motorcycle-riding gunmen waited for the suspect to arrive in his house in Barangay Poblacion at past 3 a.m.
The suspects approached and shot the victim with a .45 caliber pistol.
Soria said Estelloso succumbed to multiple bullet wounds in the head and body.
Police are eyeing personal grudge and job-related as possible motive in the killing.
Kath Abad, PDEA-12 information officer, said Estelloso was assigned as a case monitoring personnel in Cotabato.
According to the Commission on Audit, a job-order employee is a worker hired for piece work or intermittent job of short duration not exceeding six months and pay is on a daily or hourly basis.