A SENIOR employee of the House of Representatives was shot on Wednesday in front of his house in Quezon City, an act that was condemned by congressmen.

Robert Delano, 48, chief of staff of Lakas Rep. Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora of Compostela Valley, died while being treated at the Jose Delgado Memorial Medical Center from a single wound in the face.

Supt. Lino Banaag, Quezon City Police homicide chief, said investigators are still looking into the motive of the attack and, at the same time, trying to identify the assailants.

Speaker Prospero Nograles assailed the killing, describing it as a “cowardly act and a clear disregard of human life.”

Nograles called on possible witnesses to surface and cooperate with the police in the identification of the assailants that would lead to their arrest and prosecution.

Nograles believes that the National Police would solve the case, even as he called for the strengthening of surveillance and intelligence gathering of law- enforcement agencies.

“It is urgent now, more than ever, to enhance the surveillance and intelligence-gathering capabilities of law-enforcement agencies because criminals respect nothing and no one,” he said.

Banaag said Delano was shot in front of his house at 73 K-3rd Street, Kamuning, Quezon City, at about 8:20 a.m. He was onboard his blue Toyota Fortuner bearing license plate “8.”

He said the victim had just moved out his vehicle from the garage when a man armed with caliber .45 pistol shot him. Two others acted as lookouts.

The assailants then casually walked toward Judge Jimenez Street after the shooting and boarded a passenger jeepney.

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