QCPD talks to BIR for Amora slay leads
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) will look into the tax cases filed by Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) official Jonas Amora as investigators have yet to establish leads two days after he was shot dead. QCPD director Senior Supt. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar is set to meet with BIR Commissioner Cesar Dulay to check if the killing was related to Amora’s work as BIR director for Makati City. “Rest assured we are doing something about this case…We will have to look at the cases he has filed in BIR,” Eleazar said on Wednesday. Around 5 a.m. on Monday, two men on a motorbike fired at the car carrying Amora on Katipunan Avenue near the corner of Topside Road, killing him and wounding his driver, Angelito Pineda. The QCPD has obtained five security video clips retracing Amora’s route from Marikina that morning. The first three clips, from Tayug, Riverbanks Center and Industrial Valley Complex, showed the gunmen tailing Amora’s car from Marcos Highway, then overtaking it in Barangay Escopa. Footage from another camera on Katipunan showed the gunmen waiting at the dimly lit corner of the road. Amora’s car then entered the frame and stopped on the roadside. The car blocked the view of the gunmen, whose faces and motorbike license plate were also unclear. Pineda was later seen walking out of the car before falling down on his knees. The driver, who was shot in the face, remained in the hospital as of Wednesday. —Jhesset O. Enano
29th Eucharistic Congress set Nov. 26 in QC
The 29th Eucharistic Congress will be held on Saturday, Nov. 26, at the Pink Sisters’ Convent on Hemady Avenue in New Manila, Quezon City. Among the speakers for the whole-day event (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) are Rev. Raymun Festin, SVD, spiritual director of the Eucharistic Adorers League who will speak on “The Holy Eucharist is the Highest Prayer”; Rev. Fr. Jose Quilongqulong, SJ, president of Loyola School of Theology, on “The Holy Eucharist is God’s Most Special Gift,” and Rev. Bishop Honesto Ongtioco, DD, of the Diocese of Cubao, on “The Eucharist is the Spring of Mercy.” There will be a procession and benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament, followed by a Mass at St. Joseph’s Convent of Perpetual Adoration at 71 M. Hemady Ave. corner 11th Street. Free admission, snacks and lunch await the first 2,000 participants. Registration starts at 6:30 a.m. For inquiries, call the secretariat at 0943-2344121, 0917-5395127, or St. Joseph’s Convent at 7228828.
Barber tagged in Mandaluyong rapes shot dead
A man tagged in two rape complaints was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Mandaluyong City on Monday afternoon. Ernesto Montero Jr., 34, was killed by four motorcycle-riding assailants on Martinez Street near the corner of Sto. Rosario in Barangay Plainview, said Senior Supt. Joaquin Alva, the city police chief. Montero, reportedly a barber from Barangka, Cainta, Rizal province, was recently released from detention after being charged with illegal possession of a deadly weapon, on Nov. 9. Insp. Celso Humilde, chief of the Mandaluyong police’s Station 1, said Montero was also accused of raping a woman in Barangay Addition Hills in the wee hours of Nov. 4. The complainant, a saleslady at a mall in Mandaluyong, alleged that Montero abused her while holding her at knifepoint in a dark alley. Humilde said a second woman had gone to the police also to accuse Montero of rape. According to Addition Hills Councilor Melchor Salvador, five more complainants had approached the barangay government, all saying they were raped by a man who fit Montero’s description. —Jodee A. Agoncillo