{"id":109952,"date":"2017-08-06T03:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109952"},"modified":"2017-08-06T03:24:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:24:51","slug":"pasay-councilor-shot-dead-inside-las-pinas-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/06\/pasay-councilor-shot-dead-inside-las-pinas-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasay councilor shot dead inside Las Pinas mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109953\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Councilor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109953\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Councilor.jpg\" alt=\"Borbie Rivera (Facebook photo)\" width=\"677\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Councilor.jpg 677w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Councilor-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Borbie Rivera (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA&#8211; A Pasay City councilor was shot dead by unidentified assailants inside a mall in Las Pinas City on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Police District (SPD) Director Chief Supt. Tomas Apolinario identified the victim as Borbie Rivera, 39, who was shot by motorcycle-riding gunmen outside Door 4 of SM Southmall at around 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Apolinario said Rivera was rushed to Asian Hospital in Muntinlupa City but was declared dead on arrival around 8:57 p.m. due to gunshot wounds in his head and body.<\/p>\n<p>The councilor had survived an ambush in Pasay City last June.<\/p>\n<p>He added the suspects fled towards unknown direction onboard motorcycle withput plate number.<\/p>\n<p>Apolinario noted that they are investigating whether Rivera could be tied to the illicit drug trade based on police records.<\/p>\n<p>Last April 2015 , Rivera, also a Barangay Chairman of Barangay 112 in Pasay was arrested as listed as No. 1 in the SPD\u2019s Top Ten Target Personalities.<\/p>\n<p>He was released in April 2016 after the court junked the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8211; A Pasay City councilor was shot dead by unidentified assailants inside a mall in Las Pinas City on Saturday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}