P1M bounty offered for killers of former Zambo Sur village chief

PAGADIAN CITY—Local authorities offered a bounty that could reach more than P1 million for the killers of a former village chief in the town of Kumarang in an assassination that took place in Guipos town last Nov. 5.

Zamboanga del Sur Governor Victor Yu and his wife, Rep. Divina Grace Yu, said they would produce P1 million for the bounty. Mayor Ruel Molina, of Kumarang town, offered to add P50,000 to the reward.

The bounty would go to anyone who could identify the killers of Jemar Pintac, former chief of Mahayahay village in Kumarang, who was supervising a road construction project when he was shot and killed by two assassins, who are still unidentified, at the village of Guling in Guipos.

Mayor Molina had asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to solve the killing.

Pintac was with his son and other workers when the two gunmen appeared. His killers called out his name first before opening fire with assault rifles. Pintac died instantly.

Yu said he would give P1 million in cash to anyone who could identify not only the gunmen but also the mastermind of the killing.

Police in Guipos said the crime scene had been contaminated when investigators came. The victim’s son, Mark Antony, and his co-workers had moved Pintac’s body because of the heavy rain.

Police found six shells of 5.56 bullets, commonly used for Armalite assault rifles, at the crime scene.

Witnesses told police that the killers sped off to Guipos on a motorcycle after assassinating Pintac.

Edited by TSB