Moneylender shot dead

BANNA, Ilocos Norte, Oct. 8, 2021–Police said a man engaged in alleged money lending was shot to death at Brgy. Binacag, this town.

P/Lt. Col. Mar Luis Bondoc of the PIDMO- INPPO said the victim was driving his Honda Wave motorcycle towards the west direction when the assailants apparently waylaid him along the Nueva Era-Banna road.

The victim succumbed to gunshot wounds in the temple and armpit.

The responding PNP SOCO team found two empty shells and one bullet of Caliber .45 pistol at the crime scene.

The victim’s missing cellular phone and motorcycle key were believed to have been taken by the suspects, investigators said.

The motive of the killing is still undermined. (tri-media report)