Gunman in mayor’s slay linked to 3 other killings

Quezon City police investigators are looking into the possible involvement of the alleged gunman in the slay of Maconacon town mayor Erlinda Domingo in three other killings.

Senior Police Officer 4 Leonardo Pasco, Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit chief investigator of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), said that Marsibal Indaman Abduhadi, also known as “Bagwis,” could also have served as the gunman in several slay cases which occurred at the Salaam Mosque Compound and at the Commonwealth Market.

Pasco explained that the 39-year-old Abduhadi had been positively identified by some of the witnesses in the killings, including that of Police Officer 2 Olsim Salih.

“We have to recall the witnesses in the other killings to have them possibly positively identify Abduhadi as the triggerman,” Pasco said.

Salih, a member of the Quezon City police Eastwood station, was shot and killed on March 7 last year outside a police precinct at the Salaam Mosque Compound. He had just turned over a suspect he arrested to the police detachment  which falls under the QCPD Talipapa station when he was gunned down.

The two other cases involved a woman who was shot on March 7 and whose body was dumped outside one of the houses at the Salaam Mosque Compound and a passenger jeepney dispatcher who was shot dead on March 6 in a jeep terminal at the Commonwealth Market. Both incidents were believed to be related to the illegal drug trade.

Pasco said that should the other witnesses fail to identify Abduhadi, the alleged gunman would be charged only with murder and frustrated murder for the death of Domingo and the attack on her bodyguard and driver, Bernard Plasos, who was shot in the thigh.