Three in a row. Two businessmen murdered and one businessman shot at in a failed assassination attempt over a period of three days as if it's no big deal here in paradise. No one bats an eye at all this turbulence and murder since it's an everyday occurrence.
First up is a businessman who was brazenly gunned down on the EDSA Highway in broad daylight on February 17th.
Two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle went close to the white Toyota HiAce Grandia van they were riding on and fired several shots at its right side windows, Senior Supt. Moises Villaceran Jr., chief of the Mandaluyong City Police Station, told INQUIRER.net.
The incident happened at 3:23 p.m., according to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority.
Two days later on February 19th another businessman was gunned down this time after leaving church.
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| https://www.rappler.com/nation/223895-businessman-alex-yao-wife-shot-outside-bacolod-church-february-2019 |
A businessman was killed while his wife was injured after they were shot by still unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle at the premises of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Shrine (Redemptorist Church) here Tuesday night, February 19.
Filipino-Chinese businessman Alex Yao, 54, and his wife Ma. Teresa were about to leave the church after attending a prayer meeting when they were gunned down by the suspects.
The third shooting happened less than twelve hours later.
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| https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/218099/businessman-survives-ambush-in-mandaue-city |
Police identified the businessman as John Denero.
According to Senior Superintendent Julian Entoma, director of the Mandaue City Police Station (MCPO), the businessman and his wife, who was with him, were unharmed as the bullets only hit Denero’s car.
Entoma said the suspects, based on the accounts of witnesses, fled on board a motorcycle.
Aside from the same modus operandi, motorcycle assassins, there is not much to connect these murders. At least not from these media reports. Who knows what salacious, sordid, saucy details the investigations will dig up? It is unsettling to read about the assassination of two businessmen and the attempted assassination of another in such quick succession. Usually there are a few weeks between killings.
November 28th, 2018
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| https://www.rappler.com/nation/217777-businessman-dominic-sytin-shot-dead-subic-bay-freeport-november-2018 |
The victim was identified as Dominic Sytin, president and founder of United Auctioneers, a company engaged in the importation of secondhand vehicles.
Witnesses said Sytin was about to enter the Lighthouse Resort and Hotel with some companions when the suspects approached him and shot him in the head.
Sytin was dead on the spot while a still unidentified person was wounded in the attack.
The suspects got away using a motorcycle. Authorities are still investigating the motive for the killing.
September 12, 2018
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| https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1764082 |
A 56-YEAR-OLD businessman in Mandaue City was killed by an unknown gunman in front of his establishment on Hernan Cortes St. yesterday morning.
Johnson Chiaoco, 56, a Filipino-Chinese and a paint shop owner, succumbed to a gunshot wound in the head, said Chief Insp. Zosimo Jabas of the Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) Station 4.
MCPO Director Julian Entoma said they have difficulty identifying the culprit since he was wearing a full-face helmet.
He believes the perpetrator was a professional hired killer.
August 24th, 2018
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| https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/190918/cebu-bizwoman-shot-dead |
A 71-year-old businesswoman has become the latest victim in the spate of killings in Cebu.
Junko Hamada, the president of Beams Philippines Export Corporation in Talisay City, was shot dead by two unidentified assailants riding-in-tandem on a motorcycle while she was driving her Montero sport utility vehicle along N. Bacalso Avenue in Cebu City at around 7:30 p.m. on Friday.
July 16th, 2018
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| http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1041607 |
A businessman was shot dead Monday afternoon in Barangay Batinguel here by two unidentified suspects.
Superintendent Jonathan Pineda, police chief of Dumaguete City, identified the victim as Arsenio Vios Macahis, 55 years old, and resident of Barangay Bagacay in this provincial capital.
June 26th, 2018
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| https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1749822/Cebu/Local-News/Filipino-Chinese-trader-gunned-down-in-Cordova |
Gary Ong Go, 57, succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds. Police said three unidentified men shot him at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Sitio Agad-Agad, Barangay Poblacion, Cordova.
The above is eight months worth of killings. It appears the killing of a businessman happens in conjunction with the phases of the moon. Between February 17th and February 20th the moon was full with the culmination of a super snow moon the night of February 19th and morning of February 20th. The murders of November 28th, June 26th, and August 24th also occurred during a full moon. Is there a lunar connection?
Could be. Or it could be that the killing of businessmen is nothing new in the Philippines, a land where people pay back personal grudges and disputes in lead. Step back a few years and see for yourself.
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| http://www.phmd.pl/api/files/view/1953.pdf |
Homicides and aggravated assaults demonstrated statistically significant clustering around the full moon.
2017
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/19/17/korean-businessman-killed-inside-camp-crame-bato |
2014
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/611085/family-employees-shocked-by-businessman-killing |
2003
Whatever the reason it is undeniable that the amount of assassinations and other crime committed by motorcyclists riding in tandem has skyrocketed over the last few years with no end in sight. Everyone is a target. As long as someone is willing to pay and someone is willing to take the job, killing is their business...and business is good!
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