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(Eagle News) — The police on Thursday, June 5, said it was possible the man who shot and killed Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili was with a companion when he committed the crime. In a press conference after the reenactment of the killing, Chief Supt. Edward Carranza, director of the Philippine National Police Region 4-A, made the deduction after finding that there was a “distortion” in the “natural growth of the grass” where police believe the […]
(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. […]
(Eagle News) — Probers say there are three possible motives behind the killing of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili, Eduardo Año, officer in charge of the Department of the Interior and Local Government said on Wednesday, July 4. In a statement, Año said that based on the report of the special investigation task force, these three possible motives were “politics, the shame campaign that the mayor waged in his city, and his alleged involvement in illegal drugs.” “Sa […]
(Eagle News) — The mayor of a town in Nueva Ecija died in an ambush on Tuesday, July 3. A police report said General Tinio Mayor Ferdinand Bote was aboard a Toyota Fortuner, with plate number AAB-2020, when he was shot several times by a gunman at 4:50 p.m. Footage from a closed-circuit camera in the National Irrigation Authority showed the gunman appearing at the right side of the Fortuner as it was exiting the […]
(Eagle News) — Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año has instructed the police to prioritize solving the killing of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili on Monday, July 2. Año said he specifically directed the Calabarzon police director, Chief Supt. Edward Carranza, to do the same. “Maraming lumulutang na anggulo kaya trabaho ng Special Investigation Task Force na binuo ni P/Chief Supt.Carranza na pag-aralan at imbestigahan ang mga ito para agad na […]
(Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday, July 3, lashed out at President Rodrigo Duterte anew, saying it was he who “most certainly murdered with words” Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili. “Yesterday, a mayor was shot in broad daylight during a morning flag ceremony. Before the body even turns cold, he proclaims in a speech that the mayor who was shot dead was a suspected drug lord and saw it coming,” De […]
(Eagle News)–The bullet that hit Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili disintegrated upon impact, the Philippine National Police said on Tuesday, July 3. In an interview over GMA7’s Unang Balita, Chief Supt. Edward Carranza, Calabarzon director, said, however, that police were trying to determine the gun used to kill the mayor through an analysis of the bullet jacket recovered from him. The police also found a bullet shell in the area. According to Carranza, so far, […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Monday, July 2, said the police were looking at the possibility the killing of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili had something to do with his implementation of a “walk of shame campaign” in the city. Albayalde made the statement as he announced the creation of a Special Investigation Task Group that will look into the killing during the city’s flag-raising ceremony early […]
(Eagle News)–Controversial Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili was shot dead as he was presiding over the town’s flag ceremony on Monday, July 2. The police said Halili was shot around 8 a.m. A video posted by Gerry Yson Laresma, Tanauan City information officer ,showed Halili standing beside other city officials. A few minutes later, a shot was heard, followed by screams from attendees of the ceremony. The police said Halili was rushed to the CP Reyes […]
(Eagle News) — On its third run, the ‘Mentor Me on Wheels’ led by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Entrepreneurship in cooperation with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will bring its free one-on-one mentoring in Lipa City, Batangas on Saturday, June 30. The activity aims to help and give a one-on-one mentoring for Filipinos who are starting their businesses, and the small and medium enterprises that want to develop and grow […]
(Eagle News) — The Court of Appeals has rejected the plea of a primary suspect in the killing of South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo for his fellow policeman to be stopped from testifying in court. In junking SP03 Ricky Sta. Isabel’s plea for a temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction on a Pampanga court’s order allowing SP04 Roy Villegas to be discharged as state witness, the 13th Division said he failed to “sufficiently […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Thursday, June 28, said investigators were looking into the possibility the Samar “misencounter” between the military and the police was an ambush by members of the Philippine Army. According to Albayalde, the angle was being investigated as the military appeared to be in an advantage when the incident took place. “Ang gusto nating makita dito kung alam ba nila na pulis na […]
