MALOLOS
CITY—Bulacan police created a task force to investigate the recent killing of a
village chairman in San Miguel town early Sunday morning as they vowed to go
after the suspects.
Senior
Superintendent Joel Orduna, acting provincial police director of Bulacan
created Task Force Roura late Sunday composed of elements from the Criminal
Investigation Detection Team (CIDT) based in Malolos City.
The
task force is tasked to conduct a thorough investigation in the killing of
Ronnie Roura, the chair of Barangay Poblacion in San Miguel town, and
headquarters manager of John Alvarez, a mayoral candidate in the said town.
Superintendent
Marcus Rivero, chief of San Miguel police said Task Force Roura started
investigation on Sunday.
“We
will implement the law without fear or favor,” said Rivero in an interview
yesterday.
Citing
investigation reports, Rivero said that Roura was killed around 4:30 AM on
Sunday by two unidentified armed men.
Roura’s
wife Lotus Marie was able to escape but suffered bruises in the process, while
Manny Manabat, driver of a tricycle used by the Rouras suffered gunshot wonds.
Reports
also said that Ronnie Roura suffered multiple gunshot wounds in different part
of the body and in the head.
Lotus
Marie said that after the suspects shot her husband, they shot Manabat, then
shot Ronnie again, this time in the head.
She
said she knows the suspects and can easily identify them, but declined to
disclose identities yet.
In
a separate interview, mayoral candidate John Alvarez insisted that the killing
is politically motivated.
He
told PromdiNews in telephone interview that days before the incident, Roura
received threatening call from another candidate in San Miguel town.
Alvarez
expressed apprehension that the suspects who killed Ro0ura are the same
suspects who tried to kill him in February 2012, when his two body guards
namely Roelito Vidal and Josefino Alvarez were killed.
Alvarez
cited similarities in the modus operandi in both killings wherein the suspects
shot the victims in the head after shooting them in the body.
Records
obtained by PromdiNews showed that SPO2 Angelito Veracruz Liwag, PO3 Antonino
Timoteo and PO1 Alex Dayao of San Miguel Police station were charged with
multiple murders and frustrated murder in the 2012 ambush on Alvarez. Dino Balabo
