The Batangas police reported Friday, August 12 that Romeo Sulit, 61, the municipal council secretary, was delivering a speech around 8 p.m. at a debut party in Barangay Tayuman, when an assailant approached him from behind and shot him.
The gunman wore a green jacket, black shorts, and a hat.
He fled on foot and left his target with a fatal bullet wound at the back of his head.
The police said Sulit, a former vice mayor of Lobo, was brought to Batangas Medical Center in Batangas City for treatment.
Captain Roy Cuevas, Lobo police chief, said Sulit died at 12:34 a.m.
Cuevas said they were interviewing witnesses and collecting footage from security cameras at the crime scene to identify the killer. INQ
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