{"id":195616,"date":"2018-12-29T02:05:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T07:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=195616"},"modified":"2018-12-29T02:05:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T07:05:25","slug":"barangay-chairman-shot-dead-in-batangas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/29\/barangay-chairman-shot-dead-in-batangas\/","title":{"rendered":"Barangay chairman shot dead in Batangas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_195620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195620\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Marlon-Luancing-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195620\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Marlon-Luancing-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Marlon-Luancing-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Marlon-Luancing-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Marlon-Luancing-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Marlon-Luancing-2-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Marlon Luancing, barangay chairman of Barangay Antipolo del Sur and the president of the Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) of Lipa City. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=179729522186082&amp;set=pb.100004471063755.-2207520000.1546066084.&amp;type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lipa.luancing\">Marlon Mayo Luancing\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">A village chief was killed on Friday evening, December 28, in Lipa City, Batangas while he was inside a cockpit arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The victim was identified as Marlon Luancing, barangay chairman of Barangay Antipolo del Sur and the president of the Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) of Lipa City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It was reported that Luancing was at the Lipa Games and Amusement Complex in Barangay Balintawak, where a cockfight was being held when he was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at around 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to an ABS-CBN report, those who were watching the cockfight heard gunshots, which they thought were only firecrackers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It added that people only started panicking when a man, covered in blood, went up to the cockpit ring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Luancing was then brought to a hospital, but the victim was declared dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The police have yet to determine the motive and the suspects behind the killing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In July, Romel Luancing, ex-councilor of Barangay Antipolo del Sur, was shot by unidentified gunmen on board a motorcycle while he was talking to a former barangay official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The former councilor was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival after he sustained gunshot wounds in different parts of his body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A village chief was killed on Friday evening, December 28, in Lipa City, Batangas while he was inside a cockpit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":195620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195616","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=195616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}