Man gunned down in Mandaue

A 37-YEAR-OLD man was shot dead while driving home in barangay Canduman, Mandaue City.

Rodjen Estremos of barangay Casili, Mandaue City suffered gunshot wounds in the head.

Police are looking into a possible illegal drug connection in the violence.

Estremos was driving a motorcycle on his way home after bringing his wife to barangay Jagobiao past 6 a.m. yesterday.

Cheryl, the victim’s wife, works in Mitsumi and usually takes a jeepney ride for Danao City in Jagobiao.

Police said the assailants tailed Estremos and waylaid the victim in H. Abellana Street.

The motorcycle crashed after the victim was shot repeatedly.

Four empty shells and one deformed slug of a .45 pistol were recovered in the crime scene.

Cheryl told police that before the attack, her husband brought some friends to their house for a drinking session.

The woman said she found some tin foil, lighters and drug paraphernalia in the house.

She said her husband owned two firearms but police failed to find them in the couple’s house.

The wife told police that there was a time when her husband would always ask about the headlines of the newspapers.

The wife also recalled that her husband stayed home for almost two months and kept the house windows closed.

She said persons, whose faces were covered with cloth, would come to their place asking for her husband’s whereabouts./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MEN DOZA