Photograb of CCTV footage shows lawyer Ray Mondaca talking with the gunman before he was shot. (IFBP)
DUMAGUETE CITY–Dumaguete City Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo is hopeful that the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footages on Friday’s shooting of lawyer Ray Moncada will help authorities solve the crime.
Remollo told the Inquirer that the CCTV camera, located just across Moncada’s house at Ma. Asuncion Subdivision in Barangay Daro here, captured the entire incident.
The video footage showed the suspects were waiting for Moncada to go to the gate.
Moncada was then shown talking face to face with the suspects who were wearing full-face crash helmets and jackets. Then he ran away after seeing the gunman pull out his gun.
Moncada was fired upon several times. He was hit in the stomach and a bullet also grazed his shoulder. Police recovered five empty shells of caliber .45 pistol and one deformed slug.
Remollo said the CCTV operators will attempt to identify the gunmen.
“We want to identify the mastermind,” he said
There are 326 CCTV cameras throughout the city in the main area. “We need to upgrade the cameras in the inner barangays,” said the mayor.
Moncada, 74, remains under guard at a local hospital after a successful operation Friday.
Police are investigating the motive of the shooter by looking into the cases he is handling.
In May 2013, Moncada’s house was also hit by an explosion from an improvised explosive device, although nobody was injured at that time.