Kidapawan tourism exec’s killing ‘not work-related’–police

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KIDAPAWAN CITY – Police authorities here said Thursday that the September 4 fatal shooting of city tourism officer Ma. Fe. Pame was not work-related.

“We are now certain that the murder of was not related to her job as city tourism officer,” Superintendent Renante Cabico, city police chief, said.

Cabico said the police were now “following a lead” that could help identify the gunmen and the brains behind Pame’s death. He would not elaborate.

But Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco said based on what the police had told him, Pame was ordered
murdered by “someone close to her.”

“Based on police investigation, the brains behind Pame’s murder was someone close to her,” he said.

But Gantuangco would also not elaborate on this angle.

Instead, he announced that he was offering P50,000 to anyone who could provide information that would lead to the arrest of the gunmen.

Pame, also the city’s investment and promotions officer, was shot near her house in Apo Sandawa Village here by one of two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle while she was heading for work on September 4.

She died an hour after being rushed to the Kidapawan Doctor’s Hospital here.

Gantuangco said the reward money, which will come from his own pocket, would be “paid outright to anyone who can help the police and the local government unit in locating the suspects.”