No suspects yet on Negros Oriental lawyer’s killing

CEBU CITY –– Investigators of the Guihulngan police in Negros Oriental have yet to identify the suspects in the killing of lawyer Anthony Trinidad.

Lt. Col. Bonifacio Tecson, Guihulngan Police Chief, said during a phone interview that they did not have witnesses.

He said they went over the cases handled by the lawyer for leads.

Tecson divulged that the lawyer had received threats for several months.

“ … The usual threats in the form of a letter. He was tagged as a supporter of the NPA (New People’s Army),” he said.

Tecson said Trinidad earlier told them that he was part of a list of NPA supporters who were going to be killed.

“He was on that list. And so he requested for police escorts from us. We usually gave him escorts every time he had hearings here,” he said.

Trinidad, 53, was driving his white SUV Subaru when the assailants aboard a motorcycle shot Trinidad and his wife Novie Marie.

The couple was rushed to the Guihulngan District Hospital, but Trinidad was declared dead on arrival. /lzb