Chinese national killed in QC ambush

Motorcycle-riding assailants gunned down a Chinese national right in his sports utility vehicle in Quezon City Saturday morning as the victim was driving home to San Juan City.

The slain victim, Huang Shao Huai, died while being treated at the St. Luke’s Medical Center where he was rushed by responding policemen.

Huang was driving his gray Honda CRV with plate number NKQ 668 along Gilmore St. in Barangay (village) Mariana, New Manila, when he was attacked.

Superintendent Norberto Babagay, Galas police station commander, said two armed men wearing crash helmets and riding on a motorcycle were involved in the ambush. The gunman was armed with a 9mm pistol.

The Chinese national was driving to Greenhills in San Juan City where he lived, police said.

The ambush happened at the corner of Gilmore and Fourth Streets.

Huang was stuck in traffic at the street corner, giving the suspects the opportunity to shoot the victim.

The gunman was seen by bystanders alighting from the motorcycle and approached the CRV on the driver’s side, Babagay said.

Without warning, the gunman started firing some nine rounds at the windshield, hitting Huang directly.

Police from a nearby checkpoint on Third Street heard the gunshots and raced to the scene in two minutes, but were unable to catch the suspects who fled on board their motorcycle.

Babagay said they are still investigating the motive behind the ambush.

Police had to break the CRV’s driver’s side window to retrieve Huang and rush him to the hospital on a taxi, where the victim died during treatment.