{"id":242656,"date":"2020-01-19T21:28:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T02:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=242656"},"modified":"2020-01-19T21:28:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T02:28:16","slug":"ex-vice-mayor-village-chief-shot-dead-in-bulacan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/19\/ex-vice-mayor-village-chief-shot-dead-in-bulacan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-vice mayor, village chief shot dead in Bulacan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242657\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/960px-09950jfPandi_Bulacan_Roads_Landmarksfvf_15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242657\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/960px-09950jfPandi_Bulacan_Roads_Landmarksfvf_15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/960px-09950jfPandi_Bulacan_Roads_Landmarksfvf_15.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/960px-09950jfPandi_Bulacan_Roads_Landmarksfvf_15-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/960px-09950jfPandi_Bulacan_Roads_Landmarksfvf_15-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Municipal Hall of Pandi, Bulacan (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=59897072\">Photo By Judgefloro\/Wikimedia Commons, CC0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; A former vice mayor and incumbent village chief of Pandi town in this province were gunned down by still unidentified armed men while in a restaurant in Barangay Bulihan, Plaridel on Sunday afternoon.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Col. Emma Libunao, acting provincial director of Bulacan PNP identified the victims as Oscar &#8220;Oca&#8221; Marquez, 54, resident of Barangay Manatal and former vice mayor of Pandi and Mauro Capistrano, 56, incumbent village chief of Barangay Bagbaguin, also of said town.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Investigation showed that the shooting incident took place at about 12:50 p.m. at the Mang Celo Nipa Restaurant along Bypass Road in Barangay Bulihan, Plaridel town.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Witnesses Vincent John Garengo, kitchen aide, and Joseph Fernandez, pump attendant said the two victims arrived on board a Toyota Fortuner with plate number NBU 7644 at the Petron gas station along Bypass Road at around 11 a.m. reportedly to transact with a client over a lot being sold by the victims.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIt was learned that the victims went inside the Mang Celo Restaurant and while having a transaction with their clients, the armed suspects arrived, alighted, and shot Capistrano several times hitting him on the head and body that caused his instantaneous death,\u201d Libunao said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">She added Marquez managed to run away but was chased by the suspects who continuously fired on him that resulted in his instantaneous death near the gas station.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Libunao said the suspects immediately fled towards Bustos town.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Found at the crime scene were .45-caliber empty shells and deformed slugs.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Libunao immediately directed the police stations of Bustos, Balagtas, and Plaridel to conduct checkpoints for the possible arrest of the suspects.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The police are investigating the attack on Marquez and Capistrano.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan\u00a0&#8212; A former vice mayor and incumbent village chief of Pandi town in this province were gunned &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":242657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-manny-balbin","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242656","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=242656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242658,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242656\/revisions\/242658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}