CABANATUAN
CITY, Nueva Ecija, September 22, 2012-A couple who was murdered last September 12 by a lone gunman was killed
out of vengeance over a land dispute, the Philippine National Police said
yesterday.
Police Senior Superintendent Walter
Castillejos, provincial director, said
Dominador Sumawang and his live-in partner Evelyn Siton were shot dead over a
dispute over land which was also blamed as having triggered the killing early
this month of Dennis Bautista, son of Siton’s late former lover Bienvenido.
Sumawang, 49, and Siton, 52, both of
Barangay Pantoc, Gabaldon town, were gunned down by a lone gunman while
travelling along the Nueva Ecija-Aurora Road, Barangay Bantug Norte in the
afternoon of September 12.
Castillejos said the killing of the
duo was possibly related to the earlier murder of Bautista who was shot dead by
motorcycle-riding men while tending to his spare parts store in Pantoc the
night of September 3.
Police probers said Bautista and a sister
were locked up in a legal battle with Siton over Bienvenido’s land property
which Siton inherited.
Following Bienvenido’s death last May 4,
Siton attempted to evict his children from their home, prompting them to sue
her for perjury before Branch 2 of the Municipal Circuit Trial Court.
When Bautista was killed, Siton and Sumawang
were suspected of being the brains behind the attack.
Sumawang and Siton have just attended
the hearing and boarded a bus on their way home when a gunman shot them. (Manny Galvez)
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