Land row eyed in killing of QC employee
By Marlon Ramos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 16:38:00 10/05/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- Police are looking into an alleged land row as a motive in the killing of a Quezon City hall employee in Tandang Sora, Quezon City, Sunday.
Jesus Sinambal, 63, of 18 Emerald Lane, Barangay (Village) Culiat, Quezon City, died on the spot after he was shot in the left ear by an unidentified assailant after a brief car chase.
Police Officer 3 Joseph Diño, case investigator, said relatives of the victim told them that Sinambal had been receiving threats on his life before he was ambushed.
The victim’s family, he said, told them that the death threats were probably linked to a dispute involving a parcel of land. The victim was assigned to the Civil Registry Office of the City Hall.
Diño, however, declined to elaborate on the matter so as not to muddle the investigation.
According to Diño, the victim had just come from his house and was driving his blue Mitsubishi Lancer to a nearby church at around 9:20 a.m. when a black Ford Lynx with license plate CRJ 893 carrying at least four men followed him.
He said the attackers bumped the left rear side of the victim’s car, apparently to force him to stop.
Sensing danger, Sinambal sped away and tried to escape.
The victim, however, lost control of the vehicle and hit the concrete wall of a house on 99 Pinnacle Drive, in Culiat.
“One of the armed men alighted from their car and shot the victim once at close range,” Diño told the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net).
He said the other assailants hurriedly got off the vehicle, commandeered a passing motorcycle, and escaped toward Novaliches.
Diño said they could not identify what type of gun was used in the killing as they failed to recover any bullet shell from the crime scene.
The assailants’ vehicle is now in the custody of the police, who are tracing its ownership.
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