VILLAVICIOSA, Abra -- Police
investigators said they already have a person of interest in the killing of a
police officer in this town.
Master Sgt.
Frederick Fernandez Ybanez, who transferred here from Cebu was shot to death
Tuesday morning just a few steps from the police station
Ybanez was reportedly at the yard of his
boarding house above a food house in Barangay Poblacion, about 40 meters from
the police station when two assassins, reportedly had a snack there, then came from behind and peppered him with
bullets.
Insp. Raquel
Alonzo, senior staff of Abra police information office, said Ybanez just left
the police station when he was shot dead at 8:40 a.m.
Alonzo said
policemen heard the gunshots and ran out to find Ybanez sprawled on the ground.
He was rushed to the Seares Memorial
Hospital in Bangued, Abra's capital town, but did not reach it alive. Crime scene investigators found five
spent shells for Cal.45 and a spent shell for an 9-mm pistol.
Alonzo said Ybanez's service pistol and
government-issued rifle are now in custody of Villaviciosa police.
Town police
sent men to Pilar town, where the shooters reportedly fled. They also put up
checkpoints in Pilar and San Isidro towns but failed to make any arrests.
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