‘Retired PDEA officer’ gunned down in Baguio

BAGUIO CITY -- Police are looking for the gunman and his cohort who shot and killed an alleged retired agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) here Monday morning along Marcos Highway.

City Police Director Col. Allen Rae Co identified the victim as Samuel Lopez Mora, 58, married, of Zambales, resident here along Cuanso Road, Santo Nono, Bakakeng Central.

This, as the PDEA regional office denied Mora was a former PDEA agent.

A police report said the shooting happened at 7:20 a.m. in front of Hercules Bar, km 4.

The victim, who was on board his Toyota Hilux pick-up (CAH 6762) was shot 14 times. The suspect fled on board a motorcycle.

A boy who witnessed the incident was in shock as he was near the gunman when the shooting started.

Pursuing police operatives recovered an abandoned helmet and a motorcycle along Suello Village.

Police said the gunman could be hiding somewhere in the city.

Baguio City is turning to be a killing field of hired killers.

In December 2018, Muslim Imam Bedejim Abdullah, 55, a theology teacher at the Philippine Military Academy, was also shot dead by a still unidentified killer.

In April this year, an unknown gunman killed a certain Joan Lee Japson Arca, 34, a nurse.