ALIAGA,
Nueva Ecija – A barangay chairman was gunned down by armed men yesterday
morning in this town.
Chief Inspector Roberto Sena, police
station commander, identified the victim as Rodrigo Miranda, 56, of Barangay
Sto. Tomas here.
Miranda,
nicknamed Ego, was a member of the Josons’ Bagong Lakas ng Nueva Ecija and a
known ally of Vice Mayor Alfredo Domingo.
Sena said Miranda was drinking coffee
in the house of the barangay treasurer some eight kilometers from the town
proper at around 10:20 am yesterday when the three bonnet-wearing suspects, who
were boarded on an unlicensed white Hyundai car stopped and peppered him with
bullets.
The victim sustained several gunshot
wounds from Armalite rifles and was rushed to a Cabanatuan hospital but was
pronounced dead on arrival.
The
car then sped in the direction of Cabanatuan City.
Sena said that based on their
investigation, an old grudge may have been the motive behind the killing.
“He has many enemies,”he said of Miranda as he ruled out politics as the possible motive for the slaying.
