CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – A local government unit employee was shot dead and his live-in partner was wounded during a robbery in Zone II, Barangay Dilan Paurido, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan on Wednesday morning, June 26.
Police Capt. Rey Floro Tuanquin, Urdaneta police chief investigator, identified the fatality as Bernardino E. Bernardo.
Police said Bernardo and his live-in partner Maria Christina Parayno, 58, also an employee of the Urdaneta City LGU, were onboard a motorcycle when they were flagged down by four men who alighted from a black Mitsubishi Montero.
The suspects declared a holdup and shot the victims. They fled toward Asingan, Pangasinan.
Bernardo was declared dead in the hospital from multiple bullet wounds. Parayno also sustained bullet wounds but is now in stable condition.
Scene-of-the-Crime Operatives (SOCO) recovered from the crime scene five empty bullet shells.
Police are conducting follow-up investigation.