Bocaps shot dead in Solano, Tabuk

SOLANO, Nueva Vizcaya – A barangay chairman in this premier town was gunned down late night of August 13, the second village chief to be slain in the province in two months and the 10th in the region in the past two years. This, as former village official Manuel Lardizabal of Bulanao Norte in Tabuk City in Kalingta was also shot dead also on Aug. 13, reports said.

Lardizabal reportedly sustained four gunshot wounds from a Cal. 45 pistol.

In Bayombong, Senior Supt. Pedro Danguilan, provincial police director, identified the victim as Rodolfo Teaño, 57, village chief of Tucal, Solano, who was waylaid by at least five men while on his way home from a nephew’s wake at around 10:30 p.m.

Teaño’s killing occurred hours after unidentified men shot dead an Indian businesswoman, Harvender Kaur, 37, in front of the gate of her residence in Barangay Mariano Perez here.

Teaño was immediately rushed to the Medical Mission Group Hospital in Solano town but was declared dead on arrival.

Danguilan cited reports from the Solano police Teaño had at least four gunshot wounds in different parts of the body.

He said his men were putting more emphasis on old grudge and revenge as a possible motive behind Teaño’s killing.

“That is the most likely angle according to our investigation, but we cannot rule out the possibility of politics, the victim being a public official,” he added.

Recovered from the crime scene were five spent shells and a slug from a Cal.45 pistol and the victim’s eyeglasses.

Teaño was the second village chief to be killed in two months in the province. The other victim was Paul Baguilat of the remote mining village of Didipio in Kasibu town.