Same gunman eyed in two killings

Homicide investigators have started looking into the possibility that the man who shot dead a Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) official also killed an executive of the Makati City Social Welfare Department (MSWD).

Witnesses to the killing of 52-year-old MSWD logistics and finance management services chief Mila Dumaguit told the police that her killer closely resembles the gunman in the shooting of PUP vice president for administration Augustus Cezar.

They made the observation after the Manila Police District (MPD) released Wednesday a computer-generated sketch of Cezar’s killer based on the description given by other witnesses.

MPD homicide section head Senior Inspector Joselito de Ocampo told the Inquirer that members of the Makati City Police investigation and detective management section called up his office Thursday to get a copy of the computer-generated sketch.

“Their witnesses saw on Wednesday afternoon the sketch of the gunman we released and informed the Makati City Police of the resemblance,” De Ocampo pointed out, adding that the shooters in both cases also had the same height and build.

He added that the same gunman was also believed to be responsible for another killing, this time in Quezon City.

At 6:45 a.m. on October 5, Dumaguit had just gotten into a green government van on her way to work when she and her driver, June del Pilar, was shot by two motorcycle-riding men in Makati City.

Dumaguit was hit three times and declared dead on arrival at the Ospital ng Makati. Her driver was wounded but survived.

Exactly a week after Dumaguit’s death, one of two men on a motorcycle shot and killed Cezar as he was driving his van at the corner of Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard and Pureza Street in Sta. Mesa, Manila.