Vendor on drug watch list killed

A man killed a newspaper vendor by shooting her in the head as she was manning her stall at a busy intersection in Pasay City on Monday afternoon.

“They killed my wife in front of me. She did nothing wrong. God knows this. Why did they kill her?” her husband Domingo Doniña said.

According to police investigators, the victim, Leonora Doniña, 54, a resident of F.B. Harrison Street in Barangay 13, was a suspected drug pusher.

The victim’s husband and sisters denied this, saying Doniña was not engaged in illegal drugs. “We never touched drugs. My wife was helpful, she wasn’t a pusher nor a user,” Domingo said.

He added that he and his wife had been selling newspapers, cigarettes and candies at the corner of F.B. Harrison and Arnaiz Avenue since the 1970s.

At 2 p.m. on Monday, Doniña was killed as she was manning their stall. The gunman who was wearing a helmet fled on a motorcycle afterward.

The victim’s sisters said barangay officials with a grudge against them might be behind the killing.