RIZAL, Cagayan -- One of the suspects in the killing of municipal
councilor Alfredo Alvarez, 64 of Rizal town was arrested in a hot pursuit operation
in Sampaguita, Solana, also of the province.
Chief Supt. Jose Mario Espino , Police Regional Office 2
director said suspect Jessie Labang, 48 was arrested by joint police elements
of the Regional Intelligence Division, Provincial Intelligence Branch, Cagayan,
Solana and Tuguegarao City on July 30 at about 9:30 p.m. in Barangay
Sampaguita, Solana.
“Tuguegarao police prepared necessary documents needed in
filing charges against the suspect,” he added.
This, after the son of the victim, Franklin Alvarez positively
identified the suspects as Eloy Baloran of Gagabutan, Rizal and Jessie Labang
of Sampaguita, Solana based on the CCTV footage showed to him by Tuguegarao
Police.
Baloran, still at large is under manhunt operation by the
PNP.
On July 29 at 6:45 p.m. Alvarez, 64, was driving his
silver Honda Civic, bearing plate number WSR 941 traversing the said road
heading to their house when suspects who were tailing the victim onboard a red
Honda TMX 155, without plate number shot the victim several times hitting the
different parts of his body causing his instant death.
Labang an alleged bodyguard of Rizal Vice Mayor Joel Ruma
was charged with murder Tuesday in connection with the killing of Alvarez on
July 29.
In 2013, Labang was arrested at a beerhouse in Solana for
carrying a Cal. 45 pistol.
Joel Ruma denied Labang was his bodyguard, saying the
suspect has been employed as a janitor at the municipal government since when
he was mayor in 2013.
The incumbent mayor of Rizal is Ruma’s wife, Brenda.
Ruma refused to comment on the killing of Alvarez, which
probers said could be politically motivated.
Meanwhile, in Abra, Jovito Terredano, 62, former
councilor in San Juan town, was found dead with a gunshot wound in the neck in
Sitio Ngabao, South Poblacion also on Monday.
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