PAGADIAN CITY — Former Councilor Pedy Dalaota of Pitogo town in Zamboanga del Sur was shot dead by a man outside a cockpit in Purok Banana in Barangay Poblacion on Saturday.
Maj. Joenery Ojas, chief of the Pitogo Municipal Police Station, said Dalaota came out of the cockpit at 4:30 p.m. and was about to get on his motorcycle parked outside when an unidentified gunman shot him several times.
Police rushed the victim to the Margosatubig Regional Hospital where the attending physician declared him dead on arrival.
His assailant fled towards the direction of Dimataling and Tabina towns.
Investigators recovered from the crime scene five cartridges from a .45-caliber pistol.
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