Pangasinan town mayor’s pa shot dead

ALCALA, Pangasinan, Philippines — The father of Mayor Jojo Calleja of this town was gunned down by motorcycle-riding assailants in Barangay Gualsic yesterday.

Businessman Mario Callejo, 60, was driving an Isuzu pickup and had just come out of his house at around 3:30 a.m. when he was shot. 

The victim was declared dead on arrival at the Nuestro Señor Sto. Niño Hospital in Bayambang. 

Chief Inspector Fernando Lopez, town police chief, said the victim reportedly received death threats but did not report them to the police.

The mayor refused to comment on the incident.