A PROSECUTOR in the Davao region was shot dead by two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle on Tuesday morning.
Justice Undersecretary Erickson Balmes identified the victim as Mati City Prosecutor Rolando Acido.
Balmes said Acido on his way to the Mati Hall of Justice when he was shot dead by the assailants.
He said Acido was a stroke victim and half of his body is paralyzed, but was still working as city prosecutor.
“Pababa sa car…papunta sa court, binaril, he succumbed from gunshot wounds,” Balmes told reporters.
Police authorities are still gathering evidence at the scene of the crime in a bid to determine the identity of the perpetrators and the motive for the killing.
Pusher killed in drug bust
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—An alleged notorious drug pusher was killed after reportedly resisting arrest during a buy-bust operation in the outskirts of Santo Niño town in South Cotabato on Tuesday afternoon.
Supt. Romeo Galgo Jr., public information officer of the Central Mindanao police command, identified the fatality as Michael Digan Hamsa, a resident of Barangay Ambalgan, Santo Niño.
Galgo said Santo Niño police station staged an entrapment operation on Hamsa at around 2:15 p.m. at a portion of Purok Lapuz in Barangay Ambalgan.
Posing as a buyer, a police officer allegedly negotiated for the purchase of a sachet of metamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, worth P500 from the suspect.
“[But] after receiving the buy-bust money in the course of the transaction, the suspect recognized the buyer as a police officer and sensed the presence of the other operatives so he resisted,” Galgo said.
He said Hamsa pulled out a handgun tucked on his waist and fired at the policemen, prompting them to fire back.
Recovered from the fatality were a caliber .38 revolver loaded with four live amunition, a heat-sealed plastic sachet containing suspected shabu, assorted empty plastic sachets, the P500 marked bill used in the buy-bust and several drug-use paraphernalia.
Scene-of-the-crime operatives found two spent shells in the chamber of the victim’s.
With PNA