Authorities hold reenactment of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Halili’s killing

Police hold a reenactment of the killing of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili on Thursday, July 5./Ghadzs Rodelas/Eagle News Service/

(Eagle News) — The task force that is investigating the killing of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili held a reenactment of the same on Thursday, July 5.

The reenactment was done around the same time Halili was purported to have been killed, during the city’s flag-raising ceremony on Monday, July 2.

Authorities said the reenactment was to determine where the bullet that killed Halili came from and its trajectory that will help in the investigation.

The police have said they were looking at three possible motives in Halili’s killing: politics, his shame campaign and his alleged involvement in drug activities.

President Rodrigo Duterte had included Halili in his narco-list.