BACOLOD CITY – An employee of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) was gunned down in Purok Sandia, Barangay Mambaroto, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental on Monday morning, July 8.
AN employee of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) was killed in Barangay Mambaroto, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental on Monday, July 8. (Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office)
Police identified the victim as Andre Maria Pajarillo, 57, of Candoni, Negros Occidental.
Police Lt. Col. Fernando Somblingo Jr., Sipalay police chief, said the victim was driving his motorcycle when he was shot by two unidentified persons.
One of them was the gunman and the other was believed to be the lookout.
Somblingo said that the perpetrators may have tailed the victim on his way to work around 8:35 a.m.
The victim succumbed to two bullet wounds in the neck and head.
Recovered from the crime scene were two fired 9mm cartridges.
Police are looking into work-related or grudges as possible motives of the incident.