Guihulngan Vice Mayor 's driver shot dead

CEBU, Philippines — The Guihulngan City Police is now digging deeper in its investigation into a shooting incident that killed the driver of City Vice Mayor Ernesto Reyes, on Wednesday dawn, while about to gas up at a gasoline station in R. Villegas Street, Barangay Poblacion in the city.

Shot dead by unidentified riding-in-tandem attackers was 41-year-old Leonidas Dausan, a married resident of Barangay Buenavista, Guihulngan City, and long-time driver of the vice-mayor.

A gasoline boy, identified as Eric Tirzo dela Torre, a resident of Barangay  T-Hill also in Guihulngan, was also wounded after he was hit by stray bullets during the shooting. Police recovered seven empty shells of bullets, three slugs, and P400 cash from the crime scene.

Superintendent Mario Baquiran, chief of the Guihulngan City Police, said Dausan was on his way to the house of a city councilor— where he worked on the side as a caretaker of the councilor’s fighting cocks— when the incident took place.

Being in a routine activity, Dausan may have been monitored of getting out of his house at 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. daily. The killers caught up with him at the gas station where they shot him in different parts of his body, causing him to die on the spot, Baquiran told The Freeman.

Dausan was found to have an unlicensed .45-caliber pistol, loaded with a magazine with six live bullets, but failed to use it because it was placed inside his sling bag. An extra magazine loaded with six bullets was also found inside the bag.

The police theorize that the target was really the driver because he was alone when shot by the assailants, and personal grudge is being looked into as the possible motive of the killing.