Ex-village chair in Pasay wounded by motorcycle-riding gunman

A 58-year-old former barangay chair was reported to be in critical condition on Monday after she was shot in the face in Pasay City.

A police report said Gina Catalan was sweeping the sidewalk in front of her house on David Street, Barangay 23, at 7:15 a.m. when two men on a motorcycle approached her.

One of them took out a gun and shot her in the jaw before the pair fled toward F. B. Harrison Street.

Bystanders rushed Catalan to Manila Adventist Medical Center where she was reported to be in critical condition.

The police recovered a casing from a .45-caliber firearm at the scene of the shooting.

Victim is cop’s widow

Investigators were still trying to determine the motive for the slay attempt on the former chair who was married to late Pasay City Supt. Oscar Catalan.

Gina Catalan is the fourth former or current village chair in Pasay City to be targeted since the start of the year.

The first three — Jovie Decena of Barangay 28, Abdul Munap Akok of Barangay 14, and Teresita Biscocho of Barangay 1 — all died after being shot by men on motorcycles.