{"id":168701,"date":"2018-07-02T03:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T07:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168701"},"modified":"2018-07-02T03:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T07:03:52","slug":"tanauan-mayor-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/02\/tanauan-mayor-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanauan Mayor shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanauan City Mayor Antonio Halili was shot dead during the city\u2019s flag-raising ceremony\u00a0<span>on Monday<\/span>\u00a0morning, July 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Halili did not survive the single gunshot wound on his chest that he took from the unidentified gunman. He was declared dead on arrival at\u00a0<span>8:45 a.m. in CP Reyes Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanauan City Public Information Officer\u00a0Gerry Laresma was documenting the flag-raising ceremony through a Facebook live video, showing the mayor with some city hall officials singing the Philippine National Anthem \u201cLupang Hinirang,&#8221; but just when the ceremony was about to end, a gunshot was heard.<\/p>\n<p>Calabarzon police director Chief Superintendent Edward Carranza said that he is forming a special investigation task group (SITG) to probe Halili\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Halili is best known for his \u201cwalk of shame\u201d campaign, where he ordered alleged drug offenders to walk on the streets wearing shirts and signs saying they are criminals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Halili was also stripped of police control after the government linked him to illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 07\/ 02 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanauan City Mayor Antonio Halili was shot dead during the city\u2019s flag-raising ceremony\u00a0on Monday\u00a0morning, July 2. Halili did not survive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168701","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=168701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}