Ex-Taguig City councilor killed in gun attack

Photo from Taguig police

MANILA, Philippines — A former councilor in Taguig City was shot and killed in Barangay Ibayo-Tipas on Thursday morning, city law enforcers said.

A report from Taguig City police chief Colonel Celso Rodriquez identified the fatality as Richard Paul Jordan, former councilor of the second district of Taguig.

Police said two unidentified assailants shot Jordan along Dinggin Bayan Street at 10 a.m. and fled to an unknown direction.

Witnesses brought Jordan to the  Taguig Pateros District Hospital where the victim later died.

Members of Taguig Sub Station 5 will “immediately conduct follow-up and dragnet operation for possible identification and immediate arrest of the suspects,” read the report.

Recovered in the crime scene were eight shells and three slugs of caliber .45 firearm.

In 2018, Inquirer reported the arrest of Jordan for possession of several ecstasy tablets at a casino-hotel in Parañaque City. He was charged with illegal drug possession.

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