Ex-cop found dead

AN 80-YEAR-OLD retired police colonel was found dead at home with a gunshot wound in his head in  barangay Bulacao, Cebu City yesterday.

Police said it looked like a suicide as there were no signs of struggle  that would suggest foul play  in the death of Roldan Gonzalez.

Gonzales and his helper Josefina Mahinay were the only persons at home when  the incident happened around 1 p.m.  said  homicide investigator Alex Dacua said

Gonzalez’s  wife told polie the retired officer  had been suffering from an ailment.

Mahinay told police  she was in the kitchen when she heard a gunshot and later found Gonzales slumped in the living room with a gunshot wound in the temple.  Police recovered a .38 caliber revolver./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON

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