Gunman in radioman’s shooting still at large

By Dexter A. See

TABUK CITY – Police are now trying to identify a gunman and his cohort who who shot a hard-hitting radio anchor here on May 15.

Senior Supt. Virgilio Laya, director of the Kalinga provincial police office, identified the victim as Jerome Tabanganay, 45, married, a radio announcer of DZRK Radyo ng Bayan Tabuk, who hails from this city.

Taabanganay is now recuperating after he was wounded and confined in a local hospital after being shot by the gunman in front of a government radio station in Bulanao, here.

Laya said Tabanganay had just parked his motorcycle and was about to unsaddle for his regular morning radio program “Agenda” when two men on a Honda XRM motorcycle stopped beside him.

One of the men asked him whether or not he was Jerome Tabanganay.

Sensing danger, Tabanganay ran into the radio station but was shot and hit in the right foot just before he got inside.

The gunman, packing a Cal.45 pistol and the motorcycle driver quickly fled the scene.
Police have yet to identity the gunman and his companion including motive of the shooting.