Monday, October 2, 2023

Assassinated Businessmen July to September 2023

This is a list of assassinated businessmen for the 3rd quarter of 2023. And also some attempted assassinations. 


https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/515341/businessman-killed-in-danao-personal-grudge-eyed-as-motive

A businessman engaged in distributing soft drinks was killed by still unidentified perpetrators in Danao City last Monday, July 10, 2023.

The victim was identified as Gino Pasana Durano, said Police Lt. Col. Clark Arriola, chief of the Danao City Police Station. 

Durano, 45, was a resident of Purok Calabasa, Barangay Cambubho, also in Danao City. 

Based on initial investigations from the police, residents in Purok Calabasa, Barangay Cambubho heard successive bursts of gunfire around 4:55 p.m. on Monday.

A few minutes later, some of them found Durano, bloody and lifeless on his lawn. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but physicians declared him dead on arrival. 

The victim’s neighbors immediately reported what happened to the Police Community Precinct in Barangay Lawaan, also in Danao City. 

According to Ariola, investigators are considering personal grudge as the possible motive behind the businessman’s killing in Danao. 


https://www.philstar.com/nation/2023/07/18/2281995/maranao-businessman-hurt-ambush-attackers-arrested

A Maranao trader who owns a mobile phone store was wounded in an ambush on Monday in Iligan City.

His three attackers were arrested by pursuing policemen an hour later.

Col. Reinante Delos Santos, acting director of the Iligan City Police Office, said Tuesday Junaid Panguinaguina is now confined in a hospital.

Panguinaguina, who is from Ramain town in Lanao del Sur, was driving his Ford Everest pick-up truck when he was attacked by three gunmen at a busy stretch of the Quezon Avenue in the center of Iligan City.

The suspects — Abdulgafor Macaraya Potawan, Aladdin Macaraya Andang and Abdulrashid Pacasum Macaraya — were cornered and arrested by personnel of the Iligan City Police Station 5 and the Iligan CPO.

Potawan, Andang and Macaraya are also from Lanao del Sur.

Police investigators told reporters Paguinaguina owns an establishment in Quezon City and sells smart phones and accessories. He frequently comes home to visit relatives in Iligan City and towns in nearby Lanao del Sur.


https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/519027/businessman-shot-dead-inside-his-house-in-cordova-town

A 42-year-old buy-and-sell businessman was shot dead by unidentified assailants inside his house in Barangay San Miguel, Cordova town, Cebu on Friday evening, July 28, 2023.

Police in its report identified the victim as Glecerio Untal Jr. of Purok 2 of this barangay in the town.

Untal was described as a businessman, who would buy and sell motorcycles.

Untal was believed to have been shot twice, which was believed to be one in the head and another one in the body.

Police Corporal Allan Vercede, desk officer at the Cordova Police Station, told CDN Digital in a phone interview, that they were still conducting a followup investigation to identify and arrest the killers and to determine the motive behind the crime.

Initial investigation showed that the victim, Untal was alone in his house in Purok 2, Barangay San Miguel when he was killed.


https://mb.com.ph/2023/8/2/businesswoman-shot-dead-in-ormoc-city

A businesswoman was gunned down in her house in Barangay District 1, Ormoc City, on Tuesday, August 1.

Police identified the victim as Emily Porcadilla, 55, alias “Emyat,” an “ukay-ukay” (used clothes) trader.

Initial investigation said the victim was in her room when several unidentified armed men wearing bonnets barged in and shot her several times.

Gunmen escaped on board a red van and the Ormoc City Police Office (OCPO) found the victim lying on her bed lifeless with multiple bullet wounds.

Police conducted a hot-pursuit operation against the suspects but to no avail.


https://mb.com.ph/2023/9/7/indian-businessman-shot-dead-in-laguna

An Indian businessman was gunned down on Thursday morning, September 7, in Barangay Silangan Kabubuhayan here.

Police identified the victim as Chahal Karnail Singh, 62, a resident of this town.

Initial investigation said that residents heard two gunshots.

Minutes later, the bloodied body of the victim was found sprawled on the road shoulder.

Singh sustained two bullet wounds that killed him on the spot.

The victim’s collection and motorcycle were reportedly missing.

Police found an empty bullet shell at the crime scene.

Investigation is ongoing.


https://www.philstar.com/nation/2023/09/11/2295513/cotabato-merchant-shot-robbed

A merchant was shot and wounded by one of three gunmen who robbed him at gunpoint in an attack late Sunday nearby Libungan town in Cotabato. The suspects also took his sling bag containing cash.

Juan Librea Bulleque Jr., who has a rice and corn grains business and is engaged in buy-and-sell of other agricultural products from around Libungan, lost P80,000 in the incident.

Col. Harold S. Ramos, Cotabato provincial police director, on Monday said that Bulleque, who has a trading establishment in the public market of Libungan, was attacked while he was about to enter their residential yard in Barangay Kabpangi.

Witnesses told local police probers that one of Bulleque’s three attackers shot him in the upper torso when he resisted and took his sling bag as he fell as they escaped using a motorcycle parked nearby.

Ramos told reporters that personnel of the Libungan Municipal Police Station are now trying to identify the suspects for immediate prosecution.


https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1660838/sri-lankan-businessman-slain-in-cotabato-city-gun-attack

A Sri Lankan businessman was shot dead by a still unidentified gunman along a busy street here Thursday afternoon.

Captain Kenneth Rosales, Cotabato City police station 1 commander, identified the victim as Mohamed Rifard Mohamed Siddeek, 46, a Sri Lankan national residing in Barangay Semba of Datu Odin Sinsuat town, Maguindanao.

Colonel Querubin Manalang Jr., Cotabato City police director, said a manhunt operation is still ongoing as of this posting.

Rosales said Siddeek had just alighted from his white mini-van along Don Rufino Alonzo Avenue in Barangay Poblacion Mother when a man approached him and opened fire without provocation.

Police found empty shells for caliber .45 pistol at the crime scene that is near the city mega market which is a densely populated area.

Witnesses told police probers that the gunman quickly fled on board a motorcycle driven by an accessory.

Civilians who know the victim said Siddeek was engaged in money lending and survived a gun attack in Barangay Broce of Datu Odin Sinsuat town last year.


https://www.philstar.com/nation/2023/09/15/2296328/trader-captures-own-murder-facebook

A businessman was shot dead while streaming a video of himself on Facebook.

Ryan Relator, 44, a resident of Barangay Poblacion in Banga, Aklan, was recording himself while driving his Harley-Davidson motorcycle when he was shot by unidentified men on another motorbike in front of the barangay hall of New Buswang in Kalibo town.

The video showed Relator still managed to drive after he was shot. It appeared that he fell from his motorcycle, and then gunshots were heard again.

Relator was taken to the Dr. Rafael S. Tumbukon Memorial Hospital, where he died after undergoing surgery on Wednesday.

An investigation is underway.


https://mb.com.ph/2023/9/24/fruit-vendor-slain-in-quezon

A 40-year-old fruit vendor was shot dead on the Maharlika Highway in Barangay Lalig, here, on Saturday afternoon, September 23.

Police identified the victim as Christopher Magbayao, a resident of Sitio Sandig, Barangay Bukal, this town.

Investigation said the victim was driving his tricycle when he was shot by a lone gunman who fled in an unknown direction.

Magbayao sustained bullet wounds and was taken to the hospital where he was declared dead.

Probers found three cartridge cases from a caliber .45 pistol in the crime scene.

Police are digging deeper into the incident and a manhunt operation against the gunman is underway.

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