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...
Authorities have mounted a manhunt for an armed man who engaged an off-duty police officer in a gunfight following a shooting incident that was allegedly sparked by a quarrel over animal cruelty in Parañaque City on June 5. Southern Police District (SPD) director Brig. Gen. Oliver Cinco said...
BACOLOD CITY – A 58-year-old pastor was gunned down in a sugarcane field in Sitio Mag-anay Uno, Barangay Bi-ao, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental on Monday, June 8. Police Capt. Joelan Vinson, Binalbagan police chief, identified the victim as Marlo, a hacienda overseer and member of the village’s...
BACOLOD CITY – A 50-year-old barber was gunned down while cutting a customer’s hair in his house in Barangay Vista Alegre here on Sunday, June 7. Police identified the victim as Carlito. Investigation showed that an unidentified person suddenly entered his house and shot him. The victim died on...
PAGSANJAN, Laguna – A 43-year-old vendor was shot dead in Barangay Maulawin here on Sunday morning. Police identified the victim as Gian. Investigation said the victim was inside his room eating fruits when an unidentified individual called his name from outside. He looked out the window and was...
BACOLOD CITY – A 41-year-old woman was gunned down following a visit to her detained live-in partner at the Negros Occidental District Jail (NODJ) in Barangay Tabunan, Bago City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, June 6. Police identified the victim as Lowela, a resident of Barangay 2, Manapla,...
CABUYAO CITY, Laguna – A 44-year-old street was gunned down on Friday evening, June 5, in Barangay Banay-Banay, this city. Police said Sammy was riding a tricycle with his live-in partner Lalaine on their way home when the suspects onboard a motorcycle with license plate DO52135 appeared and shot...
BACOLOD CITY – Two suspected robbers were arrested for allegedly shooting two intelligence officers of the Bacolod City Police Office in Barangay Singcang-Airport here on Wednesday, June 3. Police identified the suspects as Toto, 29, of Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, and Tomas, 28, of...
COTABATO CITY – About 160 families fled to safer grounds Thursday night after armed groups exchanged gunfire in Barangay Malingao, Kadayangan, in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s (BARMM) Special Geographic Area (SGA) in Cotabato province. Barangay Malingao chairperson...
MAGSINGAL, Ilocos Sur – A barangay councilor was shot dead in his home in Barangay Bungro here on Monday night, June 1. Police Capt. Melvin Trinidad, police chief here, said the 50-year-old victim was resting in the veranda at 10:15 p.m. when unidentified men arrived and shot him in the face. The...
COTABATO CITY – The death toll in the bloody gun attack in the Special Geographic Area of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (SGA-BARMM) on Tuesday rose to four as two more wounded victims have died in the hospital, police said. “Four other wounded victims remained in...
COTABATO CITY – Police and military authorities are hunting down a group of gunmen who killed two and wounded seven others in a gun attack Tuesday morning in the Special Geographic Area of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (SGA-BARMM) in Cotabato province. Capt. Steffi...