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LUCENA CITY—A 66-year-old retired policeman was shot dead on Sunday, June 19, after he tried to pacify a drunken laborer who went berserk in the island town of Burdeos in Quezon province.
The Quezon police said in a report Monday that Arcel Azores, 40, was creating trouble around 7:30 p.m. and pointing his handgun at a resident in Barangay Amot.
Orlando Bantucan, a former cop, intervened to pacify Azores. Instead of heeding the plea, Azores shot Bantucan in his left chest.
Bantucan was rushed to Burdeos Rural Health Unit but died on the way.
Azores was arrested during a follow-up operation.
The police said the motive for the killing was a “sudden impulse of emotion due to too much intake of intoxicating liquor.”
Lt. Anthony Miano Jr., Burdeos police chief, said the investigators had yet to determine the caliber of the gun used in the killing.
“My men were still searching for the weapon at the crime scene,” Miano explained over the phone.
He said Bantucan was formerly with the regional office in Camp Vicente Lim in Laguna and retired as a police executive master sergeant.