EPD: Cams show 6 men on bikes tailed Marasigan brothers

There could be up to six persons, not just two, involved in the ambush that killed public relations consultant Mike Marasigan and his brother Christopher in San Juan City last week, according to the Eastern Police District.

Senior Supt. Florendo Quibuyen, the EPD deputy director for operations, said footage from closed-circuit television cameras around the crime scene indicated that four more men on two motorbikes tailed the vehicle used by the brothers shortly before they were shot on the night of Aug. 3.

Quibuyen said that aside from the gunman and his motorcycle driver who carried out the attack, the four others may include “spotters” who followed the victims’ vehicle in Barangay Sta. Lucia.

Crossmatching

Meanwhile, EPD Director Chief Supt. Romulo Sapitula said Task Force Marasigan had started crossmatching the slugs and bullet casings recovered from the crime scene in San Juan with those used in the killings of three other persons connected to the Department of Finance—where Marasigan served as a PR consultant—or its attached agencies.

Sapitula cited the cases of Albert Enriquez, assessment division chief of the Bureau of Internal Revenue District 28 office in Quezon City, who was killed in June this year; BIR Revenue District Office 8-Makati City director Jonas Amora, who was slain also in Quezon City in November 2016; and Arturo Lachica, Bureau of Customs assessment division chief, who was attacked on España, Manila, in November 2016.

The slugs recovered from the four murders are mostly from a 9-mm pistol, the EPD chief noted. —Jodee A. Agoncillo