CABUGAO, Ilocos Sur – The chairman of Barangay Turod-Patac here was gunned down on Friday, June 12.
Police said the victim, Leo Ronnel Tabaco Taverna, 39, was sitting in front of a neighbor’s house at around 1:45 p.m. when a pickup truck arrived.
Two men disembarked and shot him.
The suspects fled and the subject of a manhunt operation.
Taverna was declared dead on arrival in a hospital here from multiple bullet wounds.
Police recovered 15 M16 and 10 .45 caliber bullet shells in the area.
Follow-up investigation is ongoing.