PNP: Slain Pasay barangay chair was ‘high-value target’

DRUG-RELATED KILLING? The victim (above), was shot dead by a man (left) as she was washing dishes near the barangay hall. She had just won a seat in the barangay council in the May 14 elections. —TERESITA BISCOCHO’S FB ACCOUNT/PASAY POLICE

Investigators are looking at illegal drugs as one of the motives in the killing of an outgoing Pasay City barangay chair.

Teresita Biscocho, who was pronounced dead at 9 p.m. on Sunday, was the incumbent Barangay 1 chair. In the May 14 elections, she ran for and won a seat in the barangay council.

The 59-year-old victim earlier lapsed into a coma after she was taken to Adventist Medical Center for gunshot wounds in the head, abdomen and left arm.

In a report submitted to Pasay City police chief, Senior Supt. Noel Flores, Biscocho was washing dishes outside the barangay hall on Cuyegkeng Street at 1:35 p.m. on Saturday when a man on a red Mio motorcycle shot her.

Senior Insp. Wilfredo Sangel, head of the Pasay police investigation section, said that probers were looking at the alleged involvement in illegal drugs of Biscocho who was considered a “high-value target.”

“But we cannot make [any conclusions] yet since we just updated our drug watchlist and she may have been removed from [it],” he added.

Successor is victim’s kin

Sangel said that investigators had ruled out politics since the newly elected barangay chief, Daniel Asuncion, was the victim’s nephew.

A hunt has been launched for the gunman who was caught on a closed-circuit TV camera passing through F.B. Harrison Street while escaping. He was described as 5’5” tall, of bulky build and dressed in a black shirt and denim jeans. He was also wearing a helmet and sunglasses.

Sangel said the suspect appeared to be left-handed.