Vendetta seen in Canadian trader’s slay in Pasay

The police are looking at vendetta as one of the possible motives in the killing of a Canadian businessman in Pasay City earlier this month.

The widow of the slain Nanthakumaran Kumarasamy told investigators that the facial composite of the gunman had a close resemblance to the son of an elderly man who was hit and killed by Kumarasamy in a road accident last year.

On the night of March 6, an unidentified assailant shot the 55-year-old Kumarasamy as he was driving in heavy traffic on Edsa Extension near Macapagal Avenue. The victim and his 24-year-old pregnant Filipino wife were then on their way home to a Parañaque City subdivision.

A March 13 report by the Pasay city police chief, Senior Supt. Lawrence Coop, noted that the Canadian figured in a vehicular accident on the National Highway in Iba, Zambales province, on April 8, 2016, which resulted in the death of a 75-year-old man.

Quoting the Zambales policeman who recorded the accident, the report said one of the septuagenarian’s sons filed a criminal complaint against Kumarasamy but both parties eventually reached an amicable settlement that had the Canadian paying P120,000 to the bereaved family.

Kumarasamy’s widow recalled that one of the sons was so angry that he wanted to punch her husband in the face when they met at the Iba police station, according to Coop.

When the widow was shown the facial composite of the gunman, which was based on descriptions given by a witness to the March 6 attack, “(she) stated that the sketch had a similarity to the face of the son of an old man that her husband sideswiped in April 2016 when they were in Iba, Zambales,” the official added.

Having obtained the names of the old man’s sons, the Pasay police had also secured their photos from the Commission on Elections office in Iba and would show them to the widow, Coop said.

Investigators earlier considered other angles in the Kumarasamy case, such as a love triangle and a business rivalry. The slain Canadian, who married his Filipino wife only last month, operated a cell phone shop at Victory Mall in Pasay.