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(Eagle News) — Bayan Muna condemned on Wednesday, Jan. 30, the killing of a National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant on a bus bound for Nueva Vizcaya. “We strongly and vehemently condemn this dastardly and cowardly act,” former Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Neri Colmenares said in a statement issued after the death of Randy Felix Malayao. Malayao, who was also a columnist for the Baguio-based Northern Dispatch, was sleeping on the bus when he […]
(Eagle News) — The police have recovered one of two guns allegedly used in the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe and his bodyguard in December last year. The 45 cal. pistol, the police said, was recovered from a fish pond in Barangay Busay in Ligao City, Albay. A magazine loaded with ammunition was also recovered. The gun was reportedly thrown by Christopher Naval, one of the suspects in the killing of Batocabe and SP01 Orlando […]
(Eagle News) — Daraga, Albay Mayor Carlwyn Baldo was arrested by authorities on Tuesday, Jan. 22, for alleged illegal possession of firearms. Baldo, who was tagged by the police as the mastermind in the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe in December last year, was arrested after authorities said they recovered two caliber .45 pistols, a magazine for an Uzi loaded with 7 live ammunition, eight live ammunition for a cal. 45 pistol, and live ammunition for an […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Friday, Jan. 18, ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to probe the killing of former Cebu City Assistant Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro. Guevarra said he made the directive for the NBI to “identify the perpetrators at the soonest possible time” in a text message to reporters. Castro was shot dead as she was driving her Nissan Juke vehicle on Escario St. on Thursday, Jan. 17. The police […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) – An Uber driver who went on a shooting spree that killed six people in the Midwestern US state of Michigan pleaded guilty to all charges Monday. In a surprise turn as the trial was scheduled to begin, Jason Dalton pleaded guilty to embarking on a deadly February 2016 shooting spree in the small city of Kalamazoo, in between driving for customers of the ride-sharing service Uber. Dalton was charged with […]
(Eagle News)—Two other suspects in the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe surrendered to authorities on Saturday, Jan. 5. Police said Rolando Aromado and Danilo Muella were the next to surrender after Henry Yuson, the alleged main gunman, and Jaywin Babor, the alleged driver of the getaway motorcycle used in the attack in December last year that also killed SP01 Orlando Diaz, Batocabe’s security escort, and injured six others. With Aromado’s and Muella’s surrender, only Daraga, Albay […]
(Eagle News)—-Another suspect in the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe surrendered to authorities on Friday, Jan. 4. Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said Jaywin Babor, the alleged driver of the getaway motorcycle used in the murder in December last year, is now in police custody at Camp Crame. Babor’s surrender came a day after Henry Yuson, allegedly the main gunman in the killing of Batocabe, surrendered to authorities. Yuson had a standing warrant of arrest […]
(Eagle News)-The main gunman in the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe has surrendered to the authorities. Henry Yuson, a former New People’s Army member, surrendered to the military in Albay on Thursday afternoon. Yuson was allegedly the main man who pulled the trigger and killed Batocabe in December last year. The other gunman, Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said, was Rolando Aromado. With the surrender of Yuson, who has a standing warrant of arrest […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, Dec. 29, said he warned an “Albay mayor” against “terrorizing” the widow of Rep. Rodel Batocabe. “Sabi ko, ‘p***ng i** ka, ‘wag mong takutin ‘yang byuda kasi sabi ko, sa byuda, ‘sige ikaw ang tumakbo’,” Duterte said in his speech in Kidapawan, without naming the mayor. He said he told the mayor he would give him the “ultimate humiliation” in front of his family if the chief executive heard […]
(Eagle News)–The police are in possession of pictures that could help them identify the gunmen in the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe in Albay. This is according to Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, who cited a report given to him by Regional Director Police Chief Supt. Arnel Escobal on Friday morning. According to Año, based on Escobal, the pictures were “volunteered” to the police by some attendees of the gift-giving event in Daraga. The police had […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed his condolences to the family of Rep. Rodel Batocabe’s security escort, who was also slain by still-unidentified gunmen over the weekend. “Console yourself (the family of SP01 Orlando Diaz) with the fact that he died in the line of duty.. Alam mo pagka mag-security ka, the possibility of dying is there always,” Duterte said during his visit to the wake of Batocabe in Albay on Wednesday, Dec. 26. Batocabe […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, Dec. 27, visited the wake of Rep. Rodel Batocabe, whom authorities said may have been killed due to politics. During his visit to the wake in Albay, the President also announced he had increased the bounty for any information about the gunmen to P50 million. Earlier, lawmakers raised a P30-million reward money. The President refused to provide details about the case, but hinted at the killing being politically motivated. “But […]
