Ambush investigation (File photo by Junjie Mendoza, CDN/INQUIRER)
TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte – Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a 40-year-old man here past 12 noon on Tuesday, police said on Wednesday.
Investigators are still probing if the killing of Alicampo Antonio could be due to illegal drugs after police found two sachets of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu inside his car, according to Senior Police Officer 1 Wendell Balahay, Tagum police investigator.
Balahay said Antonio, a resident of Madaum village here, was on his way to gas up his car along Pioneer Avenue in Magugpo Poblacion village when an undetermined number of assailants shot the victim several times before escaping.
Elements from the police Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO) recovered at the scene an empty shell from a bullet of an M-16 rifle (5.56 mm) while two sachets of alleged shabu wrapped in a piece of paper were found inside the car. SFM