Lawyer, client shot dead in Bulacan

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CITY OF MALOLOS—A lawyer who used to work with the Inquirer and a policeman  were shot and killed by two men along MacArthur Highway in Barangay Tikay in this Bulacan capital Thursday shortly after attending a court hearing here.

Superintendent Dave Poklay, city police chief, said lawyer Lysandro Sanchez, 52, and Police Officer 2 Ronnel Coquia, both from Metro Manila, were aboard a Nissan Sentra sedan and traveling on the southbound lane of the highway when the gunmen, who were riding tandem on a motorcycle, attacked them at about 11 a.m.

Poklay said Sanchez and Coquia were in Bulacan to attend a hearing at the Bulacan Regional Trial Court located at the provincial capitol compound.

Poklay said initial reports he received from investigators showed that Sanchez was Coquia’s defense counsel in a robbery case being heard by the Bulacan RTC.

He said investigators had yet to go over court records as they attempt to determine if the attack was related to the court case.

Sanchez, worked for the Inquirer as head of the newspaper’s research section from 1995 to 1999, and as head of the human resources section from 1993 to 1995.

Sanchez also worked at the Civil Service Commission as a personnel analyst, and at the National Electrification Administration as cooperative development officer.

Sanchez earned his degree in political science from the National College of Business and Arts in 1981. He also took up a graduate course leading to a degree in master of business administration at the Philippine School of Business Administration, and obtained a law degree from the Far Eastern University in 1990.

Sanchez passed the bar in 1995. He later set up us his own firm, the Atty. Lysandro Sanchez Law Office.

Sanchez was born on July 17, 1959 in Tondo, Manila. He is survived by his wife, Manuela Fernandez, and children Jacqueline, Jennifer, Joanna, Juliet and Lysandro Jr. Carmela Reyes-Estrope, Inquirer Central Luzon and Jamie Marie Elona, Inquirer.net